I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Maybe it begins the day you pledge allegiance, face the flag and suddenly clutch your left clavicle because you find a tender… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Traveling together into what the poet Adrienne Rich has called ‘the cratered night of female memory,’ they undertook a shared process of… — Janet Kaplan Copy Share Image
Everything in life hurts when u find love u cannot get rid of it even though if tht person still has feelings… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
“I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;… — William Yeats Copy Share Image
“With a metal heart I came to this life, My head was a crucible, full of elixir. Pearl by pearl My heart… — Hersh Saeed Copy Share Image
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
“It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us to look upon the spectacle of this world as… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I try to use my privilege to deconstruct from inside the racist, homophobic, heterocentric house, as an ally, while compatriot tools dismantle… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
“You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a… — Jef Murray Copy Share Image
We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young… — Vincent Harding Copy Share Image
When I first got to Motown, Smokey was already a fixture there. To me, he is one of the greatest songwriters and… — Dennis Edwards Copy Share Image
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
“Do not convince yourself that your suffering was futile, that your scars are simply scars instead of stories. Do not keep your… — Bianca Sparacino Copy Share Image
“The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Most men… — Thoreau Henry David Copy Share Image
“A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I was playing a singer-songwriter, so I started writing, and I started going up to different places around Los Angeles and reading… — Inbar Lavi Copy Share Image
“Exactly right—folded quietly and knitted in right along with the working DNA there is a shadow self. This won’t surprise poets. We… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“A statue of Arturo Prat, hero of the Chilean Navy, surveyed it all. From under his statue I look up onto those… — Brian Keenan Copy Share Image
“It’s found in a Bible verse: “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your… — Barb Raveling Copy Share Image
“ Boast of Quietness Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors. The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“And yes, there is a hierarchy. There is a difference between painting a back fence and writing a poem, but only one… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The thing I admire most about you is no matter how hard, or how much the world has tried to beat you,… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1854, some of my publications persuaded King Maximilian II of Bavaria to offer me, at the suggestion of… — Paul Heyse Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Or so the poet… — Richard Stidham Copy Share Image
