I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Before our eyes met, my mind was an empty mirror. I fear that my dreams will shatter. Now I see you every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. Sing in the shower. Dance… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Now, how are we to get the victory over all our enemies? Turn to Galatians, second chapter, verse twenty: “I am crucified… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“. . .In a heartbeat, you will fall right into that novel, that poem, the story that you are most in love… — Terry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“UP You wake up filled with dread. There seems no reason for it. Morning light sifts through the window, there is birdsong,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“At real stripper bars women just dance—so many things they could be checking off their lists. I guess men don’t want to… — Jill McDonough Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
“ With whom do you believe your lot is cast? From where does your strength come? I think somehow, somewhere every poem… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
“ Making a Fist For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, I felt the life sliding out of me,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself /… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“I am unknown; what does it matter? Poets are brothers. These lines believe; they love; they hope; and that is all. Dear… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“My wishes,’ continued the poet, ‘are as follows. Firstly, may Valdo Marx, the troubadour of Cidaris, die of apoplexy as soon as… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“I cannot pretend that I understood my mother at the end of her life. I was trying to follow the goals she… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Where is Philosophy sleeping this saturday afternoon? Are the philosophers already dead? Are the poets gone from the planet? I look through… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“And what they find is when they bring their pain or their doubt or their uncomfortable truth to church, someone immediately grabs… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color… — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
“Enséñame a volar, mi mariposa hermosa,’ Tim said suddenly. ‘It’s from a poem I— Well, it’s from a poem.’ ‘What’s it mean?’… — Jay Bell Copy Share Image
The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“You are the calmest, fiercest person I know, and that is enough to draw me into your world and woo me into… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“As a kid, I never was the type to color in the lines. I used to wonder, why do the lines even… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with you my angel. I sought nothing of you but only to see that dazzling smile of… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they… — Hugo Claus Copy Share Image
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