EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And… — Silas House Copy Share Image
“Even a cursory reading of the Bible is sufficient to recognize that the Bible is a treasury replete with a wide variety… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
When we did 'Back In The Game' on the Wu-Tang 'Iron Flag' album, I did a verse about gambling. I didn't want… — Gza Copy Share Image
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Fall in love with me and I will immortalise you in my poetry. Fall in love with me and I will worship… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her soul. She remembered the first… — Frank L. DeSilva Copy Share Image
“I wanted only to offer it to you plain and bare, unadorned by a prologue or the endless catalogue of sonnets, epigrams… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“ Dulce Et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
When you break a poem down in order to perform it, you have to engage closely with many aspects of what it's… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Conceive a canvas for a lyrical or fairytale buffoonery, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown everything in… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I love the verse in Job, where it says a man deserves the devotion of his friends even when he forsakes the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet,… — Jeremiah A. Denton Copy Share Image
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“I appear to be embarked on the turbid waters of poetry and scholarship. And a career in poetry and knowledge is as… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear,… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time,… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation… The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our… — Horace Copy Share Image
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit… But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Here's another poem, like all others before and after, dedicated to you. There isn't anything left to be said but I will… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
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