Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“She is her odd self. The kiln has been fired. She is a person persnickity about keeping her house clean, but not… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“The other thing that’s happened with writing is that I’m not afraid it will go away. Up until a couple of years… — Marsha L. Larsen Copy Share Image
“The Bridges of Marin County harbor views back east never so panoramic but here driving the folds of mt tamalpais the whole… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
“Be near me now, My tormenter, my love, be near me— At this hour when night comes down, When, having drunk from… — Faiz Ahmed Faiz Copy Share Image
“But I was young and didn’t know better and someone should have told me to capture every second every kiss & every… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban;… — Becky G Copy Share Image
“To be the other woman is to be a season that is always about to end, when the air is flowered with… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
“THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOU When I hold a rose, I see the soft, velvety petals and smile, because tucked between… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you’ve got the usual gang of idiots (as the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I said earlier that we are all poets, though not many of us write poetry; and so are we all novelists, that… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“It was time enough for whole lives to have been led and misled... time enough, as the poet said, to murder and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets,… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
“I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell… — Peter Finch Copy Share Image
“But my life, oh, my life, had been a constant search for an enormous dream in which my fellow creatures and animals,… — Aleksander Wat Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
“Now this court will learn that I am the greatest in wit and courage. I am he whose writing the blind see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
“Love can be so hauntingly beautiful, waking up past selves that have been wandering aimlessly through the corridors of our soul, for… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“The page of an accounts book is there for your use, like a love poem. It’s not there for you to nod… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“Remember that good things come in three's. And so do bad things. And always apologize when you've done something wrong. But don't… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
“Yuletide Unburdening by Stewart Stafford Fading embers of the final Christmas test, No more the frantic angst of dawn, Now it is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“A, It scares me sometimes, how much my happiness relies on you. It scares me because I know there will be a… — Emily Trunko Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
“The day is early with birds beginning and the wren in a cloud piping like the child in the poem, drop thy… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Because she couldn’t read or write, the Spaniards labeled her uncivilized. But her ability to make and read petroglyphs is the same… — J. Michael Orenduff Copy Share Image
“Robot Boy Mr. an Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life. They were a normal, happy husband and wife. One day they got… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings.… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
![“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet; He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how We are working to completion, working on from then to now. Pray remember that I…” quote by Sarah Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0a0/sarah-williams-75927_astronomy_the-old-astronomer-to-his-pupil-reach-me_1586047.jpg)
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