“There are people who want to know about everything in the minutest detail, like accountants or lawyers. But show a toe sticking… — Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“They mutilate they torment each other with silences with words as if they had another life to live they do so as… — Tadeusz Rózewicz Copy Share Image
“Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Some of the verse in "AshthavakraGIta" are so powerful that will take you to the far beyond cosmos and you will feel… — Pawan Parashar Copy Share Image
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“As the Latin poet Horace once noted, the intellect of the mind knows nothing. Instead, people use it to make common sense… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“But the loneliness was still on Danny and demanded an outlet. 'Here we sit,' he began at last. ' - broken-hearted,' Pilon… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The Night Is Darkening Round M The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to… — Margaret R. Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“When by my solitary hearth I sit, When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit, And the bare heath of life… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take… — david brooks Copy Share Image
“So while I drove my little and planned his fantasy night of how I was going to give Otter the key to… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“REQUIEM Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a poem, it’s a 3 am conversation on your basement couch and a quiet night spent on the bench next… — Christopher Korenczuk Copy Share Image
“Blackburn thought that any band that believed it's lyrics were crucial was kidding itself. Kids out on Saturday night wanted to drink,… — Bradley Denton Copy Share Image
I started hating you for everything that made me love you. I hated how lowkey, hollow, and discreet you were. I hated… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“For fifteen years I have been intently studying earthly life. It is true I have not seen the earth nor men, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so –… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Life Every day you wake up Every day you wonder what the new day will bring Every day you feel disappointed when… — Libby Hinrichs Copy Share Image
All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Horse [Man you will find here a new representation of the universe at its most poetic and most modern Man man man… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“At this juncture it is important to say something about Exodus 12:7. This verse implies that we are dealing with a ritual… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“Let the systematic theologian spell it out. Let the artists throw out thoughts and slants, maybe even slants no one else has… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
