“With each kiss that we shared we experienced the meaning of love. With the passing glances of passion we surrendered our hearts… — Anthony F. Rando Copy Share Image
There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Right now, it is it is almost.. it is almost uhh, IMPOSSIBLE for you not to see how strong rap has gotten… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In Laozi’s original, this verse begins: From one comes two, and this makes three, and thus ten thousand come to be. What… — Jim Clatfelter Copy Share Image
Heres a poem, about the feelings I had. the feelings inside of me, that never seemed bad. yet here I am, looking… — Brandon Wagner Copy Share Image
There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The poetry of life, the inner side of nature, rises near the surface to meet the eyes of the man who makes.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“In a world of weeds, she was a wildflower. In a world of prose, her voice was poetry, In a world of… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people.… — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
“The memories come back like the rainbow after the rain with all the hues and shades of color and an unending train… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I was the solitary plover a pencil for a wing-bone From the secret notes I must tilt upon the pressure execute and… — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“She winced and covered her ears as Eric,onstage, wrestled with his microphone. "Sorry about that, guys!" he yelled. "All right. I'm Eric,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Loving you I thought I'll forget every pain, i'll now live without, yesterday's blames. Poor heart thought love is the only gain,… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“Don't start on the tortured poet crap, okay? You have no idea what it's like to deal with you guys. You just… — Sayer Adams Copy Share Image
“We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
“A poem is a windy city, has broad shoulders and insistent industry, barrels into your brain, sticking its steam-filled, swarmy head into… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
“Poor Cecil, consumed by a grande passion, only to be told to compress his love manifesto into a haiku. “I won’t try… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an… — Frances Brooke Copy Share Image
“△ Remembrance of the Whole A Poem by Alexander Martini To remember is not to retrieve facts. It is to reawaken the… — Alexander Martini Copy Share Image
“The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary Oliver I know, you never intended to be in this world. But… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“ The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the… — Edgar Allen Poe Copy Share Image
“The Abundant Chamber by Stewart Stafford Divest yourself of sword and coin, And burn all your illusions and airs, Let the cave… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
“As long as the sole ruler and disposer of the universe, the nous , remained excluded from artistic activity, things were mixed… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In 1983 Colonel Burns wrote a poem in which he envisioned how his fledgling communications network might one day influence the world.… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image