It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“I could write an epic poem about your thighs.” “That would amuse polite society rather too much, and I wouldn’t like that.”… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I want to yell about it most days and stop strangers in the street to share my outrage. But my mind is… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that I wholeheartedly believe in and that has been… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re safe. So maybe for… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Keep an eye out for her, she tends to disappear intermittently, leaving no note for one to know, as to where she… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to… — Dick Smothers Copy Share Image
“15. “Master Filippus believes that three disciplines define us as humans,” Miri said while they walked to the peat pits. “History, Philosophy,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“Paul speaks at one point of Christians as “God’s poem,” God’s “artwork.” We are his “workmanship,” say some of the translations of… — Wright, N. T Copy Share Image
We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“It is not that branches of knowledge fight with one another, not poetry with anatomy, but fallacies, i.e., people. When a man… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“I do think that all of us think in poems. I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news. You… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's… — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
Love. The world is so full of love. Love fills the sky. Love is spread all over the ground. Music is love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“On the edge of a laughing teacup Did Kubla Kat decree The the corn fritter festooned with medals Shall make the brownies… — Francesco Marciuliano Copy Share Image
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person,… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“I love you for what you are Though your heart bears scars From life's harsh tempests I would not wish it unblemished… — Mark Caney Copy Share Image
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
