I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“The poetry of attention is not metaphysical. It trusts the opened eye to see. By faith, the eye stays open. And so… — Donald Revell Copy Share Image
“We can hear your voice We can hear it through the songs of praise We can hear it through the birds We… — April Nichole Copy Share Image
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the smallest way – it is a small, small way, but it is a way indeed – that the individual… — Kazim Ali Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“Like Princes crowned they bore them-- Like Demi-Gods they wrought, When the New World lay before them In headlong fact and thought.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“ Japan Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“What great gravity is this that drew my soul towards yours? What great force, that though I went falsely, went kicking, went… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I don't really have a bucket list, but if I did, one entry would be to dust off my college Russian and… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
“Epidermal Macabre Indelicate is he who loathes The aspect of his fleshy clothes,- The flying fabric stitched on bone, The vesture of… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...slowly I discerned a familiar shift in my concentration. That compulsion that prohibits me from completely surrendering to a work of art,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Asanga's commentary elaborates on this verse: The [ground consciousness] is difficult to understand, since it is not [taught] on the lower levels… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“ Our Valley We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August when the worst heat seems to rise… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
“She told me she'd chosen something for the headstone, part of a verse from Psalm eighty-four- 'Yea, the sparrow hath found an… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation,… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“It is full of interest, it has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood drenched history, some good… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“That's a poet.' 'I thought you said it was a bo-at.' 'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?' 'Why, a… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“He had, in odd ways, given it to every moment of his life, and had perhaps given it most fully when he… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
“There’s a verse in the Bible that says God has the length of our days planned out. He knows when it’s time… — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Parent-Teacher Conference At the parent-teacher conference, my father made a scene. He scared my fifth-grade teacher, with his mask from Halloween. She… — Darren Sardelli Copy Share Image
“In every possibility of a mind May you travel, yet not blind. As a head filled with imagination, Goes a heart full… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Prior to her reading of the poem, light tears washed over him. He seemed to be leaking out moments that were, as… — U.L. Harper Copy Share Image
Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“The last great poem has already been written and will continue to write itself until you accept that you are the author… — Sophie McKeand Copy Share Image
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