“The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful… — Mark A. Roeder Copy Share Image
“Whether they are poets, gardeners, fathers, priestesses, bank managers or a whole host of other ways of working in the world; the… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done… — Michael Stuckey Copy Share Image
Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“ Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words… — David Daiches Copy Share Image
“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,’ says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“It is up-hill work to oppose our prejudices; we have a democracy, but freedom of speech is enjoyed only by the most… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
“My hair smells of oceanic wind My eyes are two starfish The charming, turquoise sea is seducing me The rhythms of the… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Surely there can be but one rule of right, if morality has an eternal foundation, and whoever sacrifices virtue, strictly so called,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“How many times Can you go back to the same spot With love? I never hope to know. We work patiently at… — Harvey Shapiro Copy Share Image
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
And when my second book had come out, "Wild Gratitude," I went to Pearl London's class and she worked through different drafts… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Many terribly quiet customers exist but none more terribly quiet than Man his footsteps pass so perilously soft across the sea in… — Sophocles Carson Anne Copy Share Image
“This year in school she read Romeo and Juliet, and she told me pragmatically that Romeo was a wimp. He should have… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I saw it, the first time I looked in her eyes. The language that lived within her. It was a language that… — Andrea Michelle Copy Share Image
I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like an innocent young maiden who is extremely beautiful, and whom many other maidens, who are the other fields of… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and… — Len G. Murray Copy Share Image
Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all… — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
