Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the full-grown poet came, Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“The poet will be discontented even in the streets of heaven. The poet is always in revolt." "There again," said Syme irritably,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“FRUITS AND NUTS Keep jumping around them like monkeys. The clones, Commercialized zombies, And the TV junkies. Keep throwing berries, Twigs, And… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Be the man who has the spirit of a ruthless tiger, ravaging every dusty corner of my soul. Be the man for… — Malak El Halabi Copy Share Image
“If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beauty… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how… — Kenn Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Do you remember…(doesn’t that appear in each of my letters?), do you remember that you spoke of how eagerly you experienced that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I first got caught up in this marvelous feeling of being spoken to in that very direct, private, magical way by a… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Got Love? True love is not an emotion. It's a choice of the heart. It is a conscious act of kindness, forgiveness… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“All you need is a twenty in your pocket and a bus ticket. All you need is someone on the other end… — Shinji Moon Copy Share Image
“He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“This summer, a lot of what I was teaching was against Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence , very broadly speaking, this anxiety of… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A few weeks later, in the wood, I came across Miss Riding Hood. But what a change! No cloak of red, No… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“ON A DAY LATE THAT JANUARY, I READ AGAIN “EAST Coker” by the poet T. S. Eliot, and saw something that I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Confide this soul, where desolation has haunted. Where the heart has put on hold, for a particular memory. If the fire keeps… — Rexon Wilson Copy Share Image
“And all at once the heavy night Fell from my eyes and I could see, -- A drenched and dripping apple-tree, A… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“it’s not until the third verse that “The Hanging Tree” begins to get unnerving. You realize the singer of the song is… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“I paid the taxi driver, got out with my suitcase, surveyed my surroundings, and just as I was turning to ask the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“The poet can’t stand the quiet. She can’t stand the buzzing in her head. The murmur of memory. The poet picks up… — Trista Mateer Copy Share Image
I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
One movement that I find interesting - this is not a movement in poetry necessarily, but there's a movement on a lot… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Lavender lilies all dotted with spots. Sun-yellow daffodils clustered in pots. Blue morning-glories climb trellises high. Powder-white asters like stars in the… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“The empire cannot become a child again. Nobody can. It cannot simply give away its cannons, machines, and money and once again… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In terms of literary history, the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 is seen as a landmark. The volume contains many of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious… — William James Copy Share Image
There is no one who can stop you; you find a mic, a crowd, a set of ears, and nowadays, a camera… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
