“I close my eyes Only for a moment, then the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes, a curiosity... Same… — Kansas Copy Share Image
“I often repeat repeat myself, I often repeat repeat. I don't don't know why know why, I simply know that I I… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
“From time to time I feel as though my books and figurines were with me still. But how could they be? Are… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“Two thousand Sufi poets assembled in Baghdad last night Bullets, rockets and granades flying Allah heard only their wine voices Bursting in… — Gabriel Rosenstock Copy Share Image
My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners… — Plato Copy Share Image
“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“There were so many different moods and impressions that he wished to express in verse. He felt them within him. He tried… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“sometimes paraphrase our own Scriptures. For example, the verse above is modeled on Galatians 3:28, which says, “There is no longer Jew… — Kristen Stieffel Copy Share Image
“In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Isn't it odd that pastors, who are responsible for interpreting the Scriptures, so much of which come in the form of poetry… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Someday I will stop being young and wanting stupid tattoos. There are 7 people in my house. We each have different genders.… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
“We must therefore entertain the hypothesis that there is an important connection between being 'dialectical' and dreaming, just as there is between… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“Artists are makers, not just mouthers of slippery discourse. Language, the poets' medium, should not be privileged over the protean materials of… — Camile Pagli Copy Share Image
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“The result was a sort of condensed literature, an essence of nutriment, a sublimate of art. It was a device which Mallarmé… — K.J. Huysmans Copy Share Image
“Now listen to me, please: On a winter day, when you were a lycée student, it was snowing, and you were lost… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements,… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“How, in so short a time, she had passed from intoxication to disgust we will only seek to explain by supposing that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Every word from Kismet’s mouth sounded like poetry spoken with the most fervent passion one could conjure up. I couldn’t understand how… — Jessica Marie Gilliland Copy Share Image
If you know what you're looking for, the illustrations might give you a tip about what is coming in that section. But… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If we find poetry in the service station and motel, if we are drawn to the airport or train carriage, it is… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
