There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There… — Carl Theodor Dreyer Copy Share Image
“The idea behind verses about the sealing of hearts appears to be the psychological law that if a person once does a… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“[We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“And sometimes words become objects of interest in themselves. Suddenly we notice them. We see and hear them the way poets do,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
“The light poured through the windows upon his photographs and the poem of us sitting together a last time. Robert dying: creating… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“I was left with a scar. I think telling stories is a way of putting a scar into words. Since not all… — Brenda Lozano Copy Share Image
“The hours I spent in this anachronistic, bibliophile, Anglophile retreat were in surreal contrast to the shrieking horror show that was being… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits.… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
“Ye who have laid your love to rest, And wept above their lifeless clay, Know not the anguish of that breast, Whose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 2. The despair of the blank page: it… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Is there any reward? I'm beginning to doubt it. I am broken and bored, Is there any reward? Reassure me, Good Lord,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“THE MEANING OF A DAY: Each new dawn brings with it 15 new reasons for laughs, 100,000 new heartbeats in your chest,… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
“The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols; that Nature is the immense shadow of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions… — Stephan Delbos Copy Share Image
“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
'Alone with my thoughts and then ... I think. I think I should fight and beat my anxiety.My anxieties, sometimes we succeed,… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness.… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“This light represents the finest of all of us: Our art, poetry and songs, discoveries, creations, and science. Our ability to pick… — Ruth Ann Oskolkoff Copy Share Image
“poet Harold Hart Crane #203 on top 500 poets Poet's Page Poems Comments Stats E-Books Biography Videos Share on Facebook Share on… — Harold Hart Crane Copy Share Image
I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
“First, Genesis 1:29–3015 teaches that man and animals were originally vegetarian (before Adam’s sin). How do we know this for sure? Humans… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have… — Martin Langford Copy Share Image
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
“So Lightning says to Mud, “What would happen if I struck your blood?” And Mud says, “Brother, It would hurt, And make… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Snow-melt in the stream: Mama Nature turning winter's storms into nourishment for the soil, fecundity, and beauty. This is what I must… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
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