All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Poetry has in a way been my bridge to my acting career. I had so many questions about my life, so I… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I remember what Anna called the three of us. The Pilot. The Poet. The Physic. They are in all of us. I… — ally condie Copy Share Image
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“a cracked yolk split between her thighs. she rushed to clean up her shame. yellow stained her hands; yellow stained her child,… — Mecca-Amirah Jackson Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“When I was around 19 years old, working in the college library, I was talking to a friend of mine and this… — Wanda Lea Brayton Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something -- writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a… — Joan Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With my guitar, I could write my own stories, my own poems, and my own destiny. No one could take away the… — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
“Begin. Keep on beginning. Nibble on everything. Take a hike. Teach yourself to whistle. Lie. The older you get the more they'll… — Ellen Kort Copy Share Image
The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging… — Butch Hancock Copy Share Image
I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“I am a black woman. Don't look beyond me. Don't see through me. Look me in the eye. Hold my gaze. Listen… — Janet Autherine Copy Share Image
“Cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones,” wrote the poet Richard Wilbur, and even in the atomic era it was hard to… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“It is not true that faith, as a Victorian poet said, "puts out the eye of light"; without it there would be… — A.E. Taylor Copy Share Image
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Call me obsessed, color me consumed I’ve always been the type to notice The smell of a rose in bloom, But let… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“I like how you call homosexuality an abomination." "I don't say homosexuality's an abomination, Mr. President, the bible does." "Yes it does.… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“André Breton (who fled Nazi dominated Europe)told poets of this Caribbean country: 'Surrealism is allied with peoples of colour, first because it… — David Craven Copy Share Image
“It was the means of making it clear that no matter how painful, Muhammad needed to be true to himself, to his… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“You can Lose a child Or a parent, The love of your life, A good job, A game, A deal, A bet,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red your sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear, they crushed out your throat… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
“But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Lines Written In Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
