“Adrijene, nemoj da se duriš! Vrati se! U redu grešila sam duge godine nisam se vracala kuci, ali sam ti uvek krila… — Jacques Prévert Copy Share Image
“What are my options?" "You could read obscure poetry while I play the triangle, I suppose. Or we can smother ourselves in… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“Tumi Jónsen has now started to tell the Icelandic sagas in a style that consists principally of casting doubt on the story… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
I really like Pat Parker. I really like Audre Lorde. I read a lot of the Beats when I was younger, so… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“The goal is not to answer these questions. The goal is to be present to them with all that we are. In… — Adam Bucko Copy Share Image
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Touching my heart what was the gesture you gave? I felt the season has changed and the world felt beautiful! I will… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night"… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part… — Maurice Hayes Copy Share Image
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath- no: as one presses it against a wound out of which the whole of life,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“I spent the rest of that day brainstorming. How do you catch a very old, very alert tiger by surprise? Use his… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“When they say Don't I know you? say no. When they invite you to the party remember what parties are like before… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t beautiful. A Winter wedding is a union of elation and depression, red velvet blankets in a cheap motel room stained… — Lucas Regazzi Copy Share Image
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably,… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
I had, never been, A writer. My words, My thoughts, My feelings, Had always flowed, From my lips. And yet now, They… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid.… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold! Already you see I have escaped from you. For it is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The Bible isn’t really at all good at being an instruction manual. It’s good at leading us into a tangle of wild… — Jana Riess Copy Share Image
I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I should have moved on, but I loved it here. I felt like a Romantic poet or Thoreau by his pond. I… — Alli Dyer Copy Share Image
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“...But...to sing, to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free, with a voice that stirs and an eye that… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“His heart was now beating rapidly. He wanted to embrace her, cover her with kisses, caress her hair, touch her breast, stroke… — Andrew M. Greeley Copy Share Image
My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
![“We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the concept of jihad and verses that ISIS now uses to justify beheadings come from. A young man just told me that he went back and read this carefully [and saw] the prophet and his…” quote by Rukmini Maria Callimachi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/32c/rukmini-maria-callimachi-34961_allowing_we-know-that-muhammad-waged-war-against_856700.jpg)
