Give me a kiss, give me the world, give me your heart, I'll be your girl, give me your smile, give me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“Alba, it's okay,' Clare says softly. She looks at me. 'Say the poem about lovers on the carpet.' I blank, and then… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You… — Amir Sulaiman Copy Share Image
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Pretty Words" Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish Which circle slowly with a silken… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I think if I tried very hard, I could do a novel or a play, a poem. I could possibly paint a… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved... how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Off the Santorini cliff on a dark, starless night, I tossed a message in a bottle and love found me washed up… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“America is a dream. The poet says it was promises. The people say it is promises—that will come true. The people do… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen"… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“For such a career I lacked both endurance and inclination: the stress of ambition left me cold, while the Muse, the creative… — Ovid Copy Share Image
There is no time, No time to spare, These are the moments, In which we share, There is no time, Forget the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“The Gross National Product does not include the beauty of our poetry or the intelligence of our public debate. It measures neither… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Or Trump will become president and make things so awful we will have to hide in the woods and make a fort… — Justin Grimbol Copy Share Image
The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Who could truly set His shield to rest? His throne? His mighty spear? Think on that. Remember it well, O princes. Who… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
“History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom. It… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I… — Roger Cardinal Copy Share Image
. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who… — Plato Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Emotions are like a river flowing out of one’s heart. Form is like the riverbanks. Without them the river runs shallow and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“HEADMASTER: I was a geographer. I went to Hull. IRWIN: Oh. Larkin. HEADMASTER: Everybody says that. 'Hull? Oh, Larkin.' I don't know… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,” he said, “That from the nunnery, Of they chaste breast and quiet mind.” I looked… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
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