“Nobody can tell you about that sword all that there is to be told of it; for those that know of those… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes; but now they only laugh… — Gabriel Okara Copy Share Image
“Many Hollywoodians may have good taste and an interest in culture but they certainly hide it. They're afraid they'll be branded as… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“It began with his mind, that midnight paradise— Primal. Feral. Wicked. Then I heard his…husky masculinity His honey-dripping voice became my gravitational… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“I like masculine aesthetics. But I also write, make art, have written poetry, and like feminine aesthetics as well. I am probably… — Angel Millar Copy Share Image
“You write poetry?" Klaus asked. He had read a lot about poets but had never met one. "Just a little bit," Isadora… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“every experience will fill with immediacy. Because I love this, I am never bored. Beauty constantly wells up like the noise of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“There is the question of accumulation (...) just the simple adding up and adding on of life. And as the poet pointed… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I often wonder what she's thinking," says Ed, still gazing up at her. "That's quite an intriguing expression she has." "I often… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“The next day, he read to me a freshly composed dirge in which the circumstances of his wife’s death and burial were… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you.… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes,… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“...My voice is stained with bloody light, and I see irises dry up at its touch; in my song I wear the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“Normality is like a home to us and everyday life a mother. After a long incursion into great poetry, into the mountains… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There's a story here. A catastrophic silence where our thoughts and feelings collide ... Where your sweetness overrides my senses and our… — Nadège Richards Copy Share Image
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Fear kills, want to kill. Fear is destructive. Love is creative energy. When you love you would like to create - you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Back home, Huxley drew from this experience to compose a series of audacious attacks against the Romantic love of wilderness. The worship… — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Why there isn't any drama in my life So I'll crawl on the cottonfield with a fife Why to have a dream… — Nabarun Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
“I don’t bother with rhyme. Rarely Are two trees the same, one beside the other. I think and write like flowers have… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“ Apples of Hesperides Glinting golden through the trees, Apples of Hesperides! Through the moon-pierced warp of night Shoot pale shafts of… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
It's not suppose to be this way. The artists, and the scientists, and the poets - none of them fitted in at… — Mouth McFadden Copy Share Image
My son is someone who wants to be a writer. My sons been writing for a long time, since he was 14,… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big.' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet.… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the first poet said about our kind, young Ren? 'Cats are the great mystery, born in that space… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“…She wanders with her sad mouth And the grand mystery of amber eyes, Across the night, toward forgetfulness Like a star, fugitive… — Delmira Agustini Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“It could have been so beautiful. The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever again… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
