Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
“sometimes i don't know, which moment which cool gust of wind will come, and enchant me tousling my hair and my heart,… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“I remember the first time I saw my favorite painting, how its fragile beauty caught my breath. And I thought if the… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Remember that time you made the wish? I make a lot of wishes. The time I lied to you about the butterfly.… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Seulement la terre qui obéit, sait bien qu'elle tourne en rond, tandis que nous vers l'infini nous précipitons. Translation: But the obedient… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“An Introduction to Poetry Readings" Preaching to the converted, the tormented and perverted Introspective melancholics, axe-grinding alcoholics Welcome to a night of… — Nasty Nigel Lawrence Copy Share Image
“ Eating Fire Eating fire is your ambition: to swallow the flame down take it into your mouth and shoot it forth,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Then there was someone else I met, whose face and voice I can’t forget, and the memory of her is like a… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I never really saw the celerity of your heart When steadily fighting off the Kierkegaardian part I listened to Plutarch While you… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I saw a man swerve his car and try to hit a stray dog, but the quick mutt dodged between two parked… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“ …(my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“I bought you love poetry! 'I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.'" I… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“from the poem Hum, Hum The resurrection of the morning. The mystery of the night. The hummingbird's wings. The excitement of thunder.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Loneliness isn't gray. It is the color of the sky when it bleeds crimson rays in the horizon while there you are… — Verliza Gajeles Copy Share Image
“no verse, no diction resurrected, shaped unless the thought of you dictates this ink, your slave as the poems flow through from… — Nejoud Al-Yagout Copy Share Image
I think it is our job as poets to refuse the terms that society so often sets for usefulness. That, for instance,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
“Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. —VIDA D. SCUDDER,… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Together, we are a tribe of eyes that look upward, Even as we stand on uncertain ground. The earth beneath us moves,… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
“I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work… — John Hollander Copy Share Image
“Be Drunken, Always. That is the point; nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weigh you… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“One of his favourite couplets, by the poet Muzaffar Razmi, which he quoted on more than one occasion, in Parliament and to… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
![“Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It…” quote by Al Pacino](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/773/al-pacino-1656_admire_many-years-ago-in-the-late-70s-i-toured_1525636.jpg)
