As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him In the murmur of the breezes and the… — A.B. Paterson Copy Share Image
“I'll remember you, he thinks, and as the gun carriage, with its coffin and its dented helmet pass him by, he closes… — Anna Hope Copy Share Image
“Contemporary theologians are not accustomed to think of poetry, literature, and plays as theological discourse. In the contemporary era, where faith is… — Michelle A. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Claire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of ‘fittingness’: that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“But there was something more precious than his poems; something far away he didn’t yet possess and longed for—manliness; he knew that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They say my verse is sad: no wonder. Its narrow measure spans Rue for eternity, and sorrow Not mine, but man's This… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“This is a uni-verse (”one song’). There’s one song playing everywhere and we are all notes in it. There are no “special”… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
I went to Havana, and I was like, "Wow, there's culture everywhere!" That was one thing that I did notice when I… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“ A Pause of Thought I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred made my heart sick… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Then came time for her to marry. She had nine suitors. They all knelt round her in a circle. Standing in the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“do you dare to step in- to the vulnerable black, stripped to the soul with human blindness – when the full and… — Beth Morey Copy Share Image
“Life may as properly be called an art as any other; and the great incidents in it are no more to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Love is an elixir, so poets claim, a frothy hormonal brew to cure what's ailing you. Drink it in. Sip it slowly.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow," said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Take down the walls. Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I saw everything crumble around me, every single daydream of wandering through the grammar school cloisters citing poetry, of my parents wiping… — Meera Syal Copy Share Image
“The townspeople took the prince for dead When he never returned with the dragon’s head When with her, he stayed She thought… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his… — Richard Tillinghast Copy Share Image
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“He loved the curves on her body, her soft skin and pouty lower lip, her deep soulful eyes. He adored her voice;… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“They're waiting for you to say all these grand statements, you know? You march across the room and you're supposed to say… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the… — Jeremy Aldana Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness,… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I write a lot, poems and such, and when I look at it the next day, I can analyze what the problem… — Roland Møller Copy Share Image
My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
“And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Be you still, be you still, trembling heart; Remember the wisdom out of the old days: *Him who trembles before the flame… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
What's the point of a promise, the world is full of lies, and money is never honest, true hearts fighting greed, green… — Cody Joseph Copy Share Image
I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I… — Doseone Copy Share Image
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