When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“ (About her age when her first poem was published...) As a poet, it's fair to say that I was a 'late… — Donna J. Stone Copy Share Image
“Own it! The truth is...unhappiness stems from our propensity to blame other people. If you can accept that you are completely responsible… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Eliot, huh?" she says. The thin fabric of her long T-shirt brushes my arm. "Is everyone in your family named for a… — Brad Barkley Copy Share Image
A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths,… — L.P. Jacks Copy Share Image
“Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Now the next I will is in John, seventeenth chapter, twenty-fourth verse: “Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“When our eyes met, I felt your intake of breath. I knew then I wasn't alone in my feelings. You were trying… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Silence is my defense. The protector whom I trust. A sturdy shield, A loyal safe-keeper, A sentinel, impassable. Silence is my refuge.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather… — Helen Eustis Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is,… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem:… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears and sighs that… — St. Augustine Copy Share Image
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“In the country whereto I go I shall not see the face of my friend Nor her hair the color of sunburnt… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes… — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Copy Share Image
“Where there’s madness, there’s genius. Where there is genius, there’s creativity. We all have it somewhere within us; that hint of madness,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“I am. . . .power. . I am. . . .joy . . . . .peace. . . . . I am.… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Too long now things divine have been cheaply used And all the power of heaven, the kindly, spent In trifling waste by… — Friedrich Hölderlin Copy Share Image
When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
