“Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry.… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Such a nasty bruise,” he says, staring straight into my eyes. I am stunned he can see it. Delicate to the touch… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“The key verse to the Book of Daniel is Daniel 2:44: “And in the days of these kings shall the God of… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
“Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in "foreign… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“He had not been able to see it in himself, but looking at Hungerford, he was able at least to speculate on… — David Slavitt Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with… — Elizabeth Alexander Copy Share Image
I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The flowers that I left in the ground, that I did not gather for you, today I bring them all back, to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Storms, those whirlwinds and symphonies in the sky, nourish her midnight soul and comfort her gypsy spirit. Those tempests amplify the starlight… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Recreation And when we had invented death, had severed every soul from life we made of these our bodies sepulchers. And as… — Scott Cairns Copy Share Image
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Letting the religious right teach ID in schools is like letting the Marines teach poetry in advanced combat training. As a scientist,… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
On the second verse of 'Tears to Snow,' I talk about rappers and the way they view me now, rappers in the… — Hopsin Copy Share Image
The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is disappointing how people tend not to read a broad range of material. When the poets only read poetry, the historians… — Anthony Leskov Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore, Disciples of that astigmatic saint, That we would never leave the island Until we had put… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I am a shadow. I walk the wet roads under the dim light of the pale lamps, in the darkest hour of… — Foaad Ahmad Copy Share Image
It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life… [ellipsis… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“from 'Incident Light Poem' And all surprisingly without outrage without gunshot without a call of timber with/out bleak rows to fall: Light… — Andrea Strudensky Copy Share Image
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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