“Recuerdo que algún día yo le hablé de mi río y una como tormenta se agitó en sus estrañas. No sé si… — Julia de Burgos Copy Share Image
“I think I was enchanted When first a sombre Girl — I read that Foreign Lady** — The Dark — felt beautiful… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“some were simple idlers spending an inheritance pretending to be poets or painters; and a couple were medical students, who had a… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“When you are reading your Scriptures in this way—it matters not whether you have read little or much—if a verse stands out… — David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“The Fever Bird The fever bird sand out last night. I could not sleep, try as I might. My brain was split,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“The Canopic Inversion by Stewart Stafford In nascent light, their nose-rings entwined, Like a brazen Hathor daughter, Funnelled to market and auction,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There were a few verses that I wrote literally on the spot. But the concept was there. It's about being in your… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
“John Burroughs beautifully expresses this in his poem “Waiting”: Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I didn't know how this would play out when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to play ball, be a… — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
“It didn’t disturb the Sumerians that their script was ill-suited for writing poetry. They didn’t invent it in order to copy spoken… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Their special scent is a part of many of our perfumes. Photos or paintings of roses grace calendars, cards and advertisements. Poets… — Maggie Oster Copy Share Image
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“Wherever we walk we will make Wherever we protest we will go planting Make poems seed grass feed a child growing build… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“We all hit rock bottom; sometimes, you bounce up fast, sometimes you crawl until you can straighten up and sometimes you have… — J. Autherine Copy Share Image
Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
“I miss you, mourn for you, and walk the streets alone- often at night, beside, I fall asleep in tears, for your… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“The poet should even act his story with the very gestures of his personages. Given the same natural qualifications, he who feels… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost at Eighty" I think there are poems greater and stranger than any I have known. I would like to find… — Peter Boyle Copy Share Image
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code, that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry;… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears… — Renee Dixon Copy Share Image
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction,… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
“A dragon grows in leaps and bounds, Like troubles mounting by the pound. Its stature heightens day to day, Imposing dread and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
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