“ My Floating Sea " "Pastel colors reflect in my opening eyes and draw my gaze to a horizon where the waters… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
“Years ago I used to pick a word of the day randomly out of an dictionary/thesaurus to write poetry. I learned then… — DragonPoetikFly Copy Share Image
“I breathed him in and tasted him, his lips stronger than I’d expected. He could spout scripture and I could spout poetry,… — Vee Hoffman Copy Share Image
“…be awake to the Life that is loving you and sing your prayer, laugh your prayer, dance your prayer, run and weep… — Alla Renee Bozarth Copy Share Image
“Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last poem to my wife's heart.… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Burn the verses, I'll write fiction - burn the fiction, I'll write music - burn the music, I'll adopt a new language… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Who Am I? I’m a creator, a visionary, a poet. I approach the world with the eyes of an artist, the ears… — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I remember the morning you walked back from the sea, dirty trousers rolled, your feet pale as prisoners, poems and broken shells… — Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“THE SCRIBE Under the wings Of the feathered Goddess And in the middle Of the three dancing women, The scribe comes alive… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“verse shows the divine connection of the blowing of the shofar with Yom Teruah. In the New Testament, we see the blowing… — Mark Biltz Copy Share Image
Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“She’s always made her own bed, even when no one else was home, and nowadays she does the same for her soul.… — Broms The Poet Copy Share Image
“I just didn’t get it— even with the teacher holding an orange (the earth) in one hand and a lemon (the moon)… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“My mother was the best and most beautiful woman who ever lived. She was clean, and good, and always helped "the poor… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“This wobbly world host to insects and lint and a thousand pithy ways to feel unserious each minute It brings about a… — Erin J. Watson Copy Share Image
“In the balance of verse 51:7, though, Jeremiah gives us a further insight into the influence of the Daughter of Babylon on… — John Price Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry needs to be "easily understandable." First of all, there are often complexities of syntax, form, unfamiliar absences, etc.,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“For the poetry of a text is largely produced by the fact that the wild chaos of the universe is therein, at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“A wounded heart that loves even more is immortal, it only survives and blooms time after time. If you happen to live… — Nicola An Copy Share Image
“Yes,’ he cried, ‘you have killed my love! You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Havin loved enough and lost enough, I'm no longer searching, just opening, no longer trying to make sense of pain but trying… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“If I ever some day write an epic poem -- or somehow find my imagination fertile enough to write a novel without… — Anne Gédéon LaFitte, Marquis de Pelleport Copy Share Image
Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich, emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
![“the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/18e/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic_93688.png)
