Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“i deem her insecurities insufferable turn-offs as if the male standard for sexiness is a gospel that demands she stop starving herself… — Britt Greifeld Copy Share Image
“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember. We’re all just… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about chemistry, but I know that there's a whole world of chemistry, of professional chemists. They have their… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician… — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Love was poetry in its purest form. It existed when it did, and there was nothing that could match it's truth, its… — Robin Schwarz Copy Share Image
“Ni jedan javni trg Imenom moga oca nikad se neće zvati Ni jedan javni trg, ja to znam, on je samo Parkete… — Luko Paljetak Copy Share Image
The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“…The heart, the body and the soul By her thought was consumed whole; The only one left untouched Was I alone, and… — Amir Khusrow Dehlavi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the greatest thing we can ask ourselves is “Why not me?” Anyone who has ever accomplished anything worth while has either… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“I can see prose has taken an unfortunate turn toward utility in the past century,” he said with obvious regret. “I’m afraid… — D. Nathan Hilliard Copy Share Image
I feel that, every day, God molds me into someone that He wants me to be. So if that means just, like,… — Laurie Hernandez Copy Share Image
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“He pulled me close and said, "Katie, don't leave me, you're my breath, I refuse to live without you." It was the… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“I’m happy. But some beauty is nonesuch - The gently sloping path across the wood, The wretched bridge that’s just a little… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“New clothes left Sylvia reeling with happiness. For Sylvia, a shopping list was a poem. She always shopped alone - it suited… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“Shut lips, sleeping faces, Every stopped machine, The dumb and littered places Where crowds have been:. All silences rejoice, Weep (loudly or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Disasterology The Badger is the thirteenth astrological sign. My sign. The one the other signs evicted: unanimously. So what? ! Think I… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
“from "After the Fall" When Kennedy dropped from the sky To honor the poet Frost, ... So MacLeish spoke.."Not To mention Robert… — Alan W. Powers Copy Share Image
“In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something… — Bashō Matsuo Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength.… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she… — Allyse Near Copy Share Image
I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
