“so sing, you birds for the fever is about to rise and the empty stalemate is over let the colors bleed back… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
“Submissive Mind (Phil. 2). This chapter focuses on people, and the key verse says, “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory;… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness,… — Raymond Depardon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“December is a bewitching month. The grey of cold teases to explode into something worthwhile, into a dream of cold, a starlight… — Joseph Coelho Copy Share Image
No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind I turned to share the transport—Oh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“ Ego Tripping I was born in the congo I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx I designed a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“…I went away from your side, in love without knowing it. Now I don’t know how your eyes look, nor your hands,… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Great courage was required to engage in such an adventure. But George was in love and Freeheart was faithful. And as the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“I've got this." Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Darkness my beloved home, I return! I return, not whole, but damaged. Fatigued by quixotic tendencies, The prodigal has come back famished.… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
“the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter, how eagerly I imbibed their moods of loneliness… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafka. In heaven, the Titans… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“In a poem, melody, or picture, we are forced with a mystery: quality in the metaphysical sense of the word. How could… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes." "What is your advice to older writers?" "If… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“I just can't help thinking what a real shake up it would give people if, all of a sudden, there were no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Every emotion, every feeling I have can be expressed with a word. But poetry isn’t just words muddled in a sentence. It… — Madeleine McEwen Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“The Psalms are not only poetry in themselves; they are to be the cause of poetry in those who sing them, together… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to. Because they write poems, songs, and books in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Then Jip went up to the front of the ship and smelt the wind; and he started muttering to himself, "Tar; Spanish… — Hugh Lofting Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image