“The dark man is ubiquitous. People from all times and in all places have recorded their experiences of him in stories, poems,… — Deborah Wells Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t everyone want to feel in the night the beloved body, compass, polestar, to hear the quiet breathing that says I am… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Let me meet Poet, too, but mainly Shadow. The guy who paints in the dark. Paints birds trapped on brick walls and… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I want you only for my dreams,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare not… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“My poem must expurgate my manhood unveil the animality of the best of my being, reveal both the monster behind the friendly… — Eddy Toussaint Copy Share Image
What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“ The Net I made you many and many a song, Yet never one told all you are-- It was as though… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“B. How is Jesus able to understand our weaknesses? C. How is our great high priest different from us? 2. Read 1… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse... To be too subjective with what… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The flower-covered grave of the saint in the inner room could be seen dimly through the narrow doorway. In front of it… — Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Copy Share Image
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea--both of us calm--and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into… — Juan Ramón Jiménez Copy Share Image
The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“I am often asked by editors, fans, friends about what I read or which authors influence my writing. My answer seems surprising… — Soar Soaring-Words.com Copy Share Image
“Jason Mashak’s SALTY AS A LIP is grounded in a voice patiently bridging the “steeples and ‘scrapers” of an inquisitive mind. The… — James Ragan Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“The History Teacher Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“The Work of Art. When I watch the audience at a concert or the crowd in the picture gallery I ask myself… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“... I slipped our wicker bed and walked the sands where we were also roughly repeated: some young couple, "you did," "I… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 in Meudon as a… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“I am the fire,” Crash whispered. “I am the darkness.” It was a mantra, a prayer, the beginnings of a ritual, a… — T.L. Shreffler Copy Share Image
But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious… — Yossi Klein Halevi Copy Share Image
“ Going There Of course it was a disaster. The unbearable, dearest secret has always been a disaster. The danger when we… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry:… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once… — Khalid Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
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