“meanwhile I look at young girls stems flowers of chance. there must be a way. surely there must be a way that… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery… — Sonja Sohn Copy Share Image
It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“ Charles Baudelaire: Get Drunk One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Don’t just exist; do something meaningful with your life. Discover a problem and fix it. Don’t just fit in; make it a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“ Lot's Wife And the just man trailed God's messenger, his huge, light shape devoured the black hill. But uneasiness shadowed is… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“We are the poem's ancient band of twelve that proceeds through the ages. There were twelve of us, when we ruled the… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“ The Good-Morrow I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then?… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“7. But what kind of love is it, really? Don’t fool yourself and call it sublimity. Admit that you have stood in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“river burial had a certain rustic poetry, but Ophion cared not at all about preserving the decency of the dead. The river… — John Varley Copy Share Image
Not even the great poets can explain in words what poetry is. Do you know why? Because poetry is indeed like love,… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“What does life give me in the end but sorrow? What do love's good and evil send but sorrow? I've only seen… — Hafez Copy Share Image
“...Her eyes, he says, are stars at dusk, Her mouth as sweet as red-rose-musk; And when she dances his young heart swells… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Didn't it bother him that he was teaching his students poetry when he was certain it wouldn't make a difference in how… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“The fall of dusk upon the Egyptian scene is an unforgettable event, an event of unearthly beauty. Everything is transformed in colour… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Take down the walls. That is, after all, the whole point. You do not know what will happen if you take down… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“When i remember your name i know you are my hope. for what ? not for love... 'cause i know you can't… — Yulianto Eko P Copy Share Image
“A turning point in the criticism of Hardy’s poetry came in his centenary year, in which W. H. Auden (1940) recorded his… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“. . . for us there still exists a serene, unfathomable abyss in which God and the spirits dwell. The soul, in… — Adalbert Stifter Copy Share Image
I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
“The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken, and the phrase will be th… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning, Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning, In… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“The gospel was summarized in the verses above. It is the incarnation, sinless life, substitutionary death, burial, bodily resurrection, ascension, and eternal… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“OPENING VERSES by PASTOR THIEME HEB 4:12 The word of God is alive and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, and… — R.B.Thieme Copy Share Image
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Dear Producers, Something is radiating deep within me and it must be transmitted or I will implode and the world will suffer… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“Let us remember...that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Who never wanted, ― maddest joy Remains to him unknown ; The banquet of abstemiousness Surpasses that of wine. Within its hope,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
