“I will wake you up early even though I know you like to stay through the credits. I will leave pennies in… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Jonson wrote a poem and called his son His best piece of poetrie A lovely line a little loathsome I loved that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I was writing a poem, and suddenly, I fell asleep on a page. I was dreaming of you. You were talking to… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
“Good poetry, like music or a sweet touch, can doctor us up, be an antidote for an hour or longer, help us… — Daniel Ladinsky Copy Share Image
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“3:29:50 pm what is it that you love about him is it the way he lets you down incapable of lifting you… — R.H. Sin Copy Share Image
“I wear my loneliness like a taffeta dress riding up my thigh, and you cannot help but want me. You think it's… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“In the Christmas season of 1822, Clement Clarke Moore, a prosperous New York scholar and landowner, wrote a series of verses in… — Gerry Bowler Copy Share Image
“What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles? What if dragons felt… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Every now and then, I need a little spark of inspiration. It could be from reading (a novel, poetry, story, news article,… — Sandra Proto Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kisses like poetry, like writing sonnets, quatrains, cinquains free verse desire Kisses like ballads, your tongue on the roof of my mouth.… — Azra T Copy Share Image
“Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“They've written songs about this feeling, and poems and books, and movies. All of them telling us to live each moment like… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem “Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The long poem of walking manipulates spatial organizations, no matter how panoptic they may be: it is neither foreign to them (it… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“They smell your breath Lest you have said: I love you, They smell your heart: These are strange times, my dear. From… — Ahmad Shamlu Copy Share Image
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Welcome the small cracking of your hard-clodded shell, Embrace the warm sting of tears, Kiss the shadow which frightens you awake as… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“Poem (the spirit likes to dress up) The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift… — Pindar Copy Share Image
“He welcomes the chance to do fatherly things with the little girl, and those ten morning minutes with dear little four-year-old Ruby,… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
“I had thought so once That it was I who saw in your eyes The raindrops pinging on the windows; Hearing only… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that no one in Paris bothered to quote Coleridge, who wrote, long before cubism, that the true poet… — LeRoy C. Breunig Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
