“ Channel Firing That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“... so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and this is… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious-… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
We play a beat for 15, 20 seconds and know if we want to get on it. When we record a verse,… — Takeoff Copy Share Image
“Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers.… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“There was magic. Some kind of alchemy. I don't remember the moment you transformed from a prop into a main character. No,… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“In my own academic field, it is much easier to get a doctorate in biblical studies if you do a relentlessly left-brain… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“When you become vulnerable, any ideal or perfect image of yourself falls away. (...) Many people are addicted to perfection, and in… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
“Now turn to Matthew, tenth chapter, thirty-second verse: “Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before my… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“Everything Is Going to Be All Right How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window… — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
“First time someone broke my heart, I dropped out of engineering and emerged as the Monk Scientist. Second time when I lost… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“but what is true in it, so it seemed to me, reviewing the story of Shakespeare’s sister as I had made it,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A poetic form is essentially a codified pattern of silence. We have a little silence at the end of a line, a… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“The fructe of all the servise that I serve Dispaire doth repe, such haples hap have I ; But tho he have… — Thomas Wyatt Copy Share Image
“They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Time goes by, I would never say goodbye. I try, no matter how many tears I have to cry. He is my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Of course one’s sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one’s class, race, gender, and… — Barbara Browning Copy Share Image
What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“I had seen the girl somewhere before. She was a slender girl in a glistening blue gown that exhibited a generous spread… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“ To Bury A Star " "I pulled a star from the darkest corner of night and hid it within my bosom.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“(This is from a tribute poem to Ronnie James Dio: Former lead vocalist of the band Rainbow, Black Sabbath. This is written… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
House of Illustrations Draw in broken hearts without Patience However, I see no explanation For the lovebug that I have so there… — SdotHawkins Copy Share Image
“To survive as a human being is possible only through love. And, when Thanatos is ascendant, the instinct must be to reach… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Never mind what lies behind Death, Mr. Bast, but be sure that the poet and the musician and the tramp will be… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“...I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!" "I have been used to consider poetry as the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also… — Plato Copy Share Image
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Poetry Competition asked For A 2-Line Rhyme With d Most Romantic 1st Line & the Least Romantic 2nd Line There's d Winning… — Sadie Copy Share Image
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