“There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“And then there is the poet Kenneth Koch, who while travelling in Kenya came to a railroad crossing at which this sign… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Perfectly and imperfectly entwined. A Love beyond measure, a hell of circumstance; I smile, as I cry, loving you all the same.… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even… — Yu Hsuan-Chi Copy Share Image
Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Easter blessings All life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves awaken our senses and power to love and be whole Our Mother Earth, Our… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Mathematics isn’t just science, it is poetry – our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies… — James Luceno Copy Share Image
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“To write a poem...to paint an image on canvass from the contemplation of nature and life...is to be present again in this… — Deeper sense of presence Isabella koldras Copy Share Image
Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“My tactic is to look at you To learn how you are Love you as you are My tactic is to talk… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
“ A Baby Elephant Right now my love for you is a baby elephant Born in Berlin or in Paris, And treading… — Nikolai Gumilev Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The horses suddenly began to neigh, protesting Against those who were drowning them in the ocean. The horses sank to the bottom,… — Boris Slutsky Copy Share Image
“You take my breath away From mile away Hair, twice as nice Smile is your make up, angelic face You light up… — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician.… — Don Felder Copy Share Image
Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in… — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
“Young poets are too apt to consider themselves “children of the mist” – they must dwell apart from men and contemn their… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“Robots are like Mars: they need girls. Boys won't do; the memesoup is all wrong. They stomp when they should kiss and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“And this love of definite conception, this clearness of vision, this artistic sense of limit, is the characteristic of all great work… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A Poem For Papa She visit you on any giving day. With only a few words to say. She bow her head… — Ray Price Billy Copy Share Image
“McIntyre’s tale may have predecessors, but it is unique. I strain for literary comparisons and think: Kipling, the classical Chinese poets, early… — Stephen J. Bodio Copy Share Image
People get anxious about dividing sorts of poetry, say Confessionalism from political poetry. But Confessionalism is very much an expression of racial… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was… — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
