There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
It is absolutely vital to preserve a space where the mind, by means of poetic thinking, can move in a free, even… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Our lives can be filled with a series of trials. Some would say “You’re either in one, coming out of one or… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None,… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“I am nine. We are bored and Karen is dying. We drove to Austin that summer so Sarah's dad- who described Karen… — Olivia Gatwood Copy Share Image
“She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite… — Evan Guerra Copy Share Image
I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“These are the three things—volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm—that a speaker bears in mind. It is those who do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Dreamlands Unbroken Trust! A liars supreme resource! Youre love! Youre innocents! Youre TRUST! Since youre above suspicion. You become the hottest asset… — Javaz Copy Share Image
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate; And morning -dreams, as poets tell, are true, Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death's dark gate,… — Michael Bruce Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful verses in the Bible about Heaven is in the 21st chapter of Revelation, the fourth verse. John… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“I won't be stuck in traffic 'til I see how rugged my path is And right now I'm loving how fast my… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Everybody in this room is bored. The poems drag, the voice and gestures irk. He can't be interrupted or ignored. Poor fools,… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to remember, another to get stuck. Why don't people buy notepads and write poems instead of sit around on… — Oddný Eir Copy Share Image
“The stunning corpus of poetry produced during the war likewise paints a very different picture of how the conflict was viewed at… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“I mean this is the kind of love people dream about, poets write sonnets for, and well it's the kind of love… — DeAnna Kinney Copy Share Image
To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“It is an unquestioned part of everyday life. Kneeling before the cathode ray God, with our TV Guide concordance in hand, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Life is like that. You think you’re just slogging along and then something reminds you that just getting up in the morning… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
