I had a very humane, what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova would probably have called 'vegetarian,' experience of migration. It involved… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it: The moon is within me, and so is the… — Kabir Copy Share Image
“He was the hunter of my soul, lying in wait - silently and motionless. Coaxing me out of hiding, Enticing me with… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is… — Aase Berg Copy Share Image
I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
[Rihanna] I know you've been hurt by someone else I can tell by the way you carry yourself. If you let me,… — Drake Copy Share Image
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“Did you finish yours, Kota?" "Working on it now, Actually." "How's it going?" He sat up, turning in his chair and holding… — C.L. Stone Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
“Does poetry - or language or philosophy or music or architecture, even that of our temples - really need to dance to… — Maria Rosa Menocal Copy Share Image
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
I always had, you know, in the book of Hebrews, I think it's chapter 11, verse 1, where it says, "Now faith… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
“It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
“Naked solitude with neither gesture nor word. Transparent in the orchard, smooth as oil on the hill. Silent solitude with neither fragrance… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though;… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“We are all poor; but there is a difference between what Mrs. Spark intends by speaking of 'slender means', and what Stevens… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
“ Wisdom When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“He is no mean poet, and his verse can rouse or persuade even if his logic fail to convince. His message is… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was took a while to recover from. But after ripping… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
Why do you sit here and cry for me? I am gone and nothing you do will bring me back. But the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“When shall I get to kiss thee?’ I asked. ‘By all means you can forever ask,’ she answered. ‘Your lips ask a… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
“You obsess (but of course you obsess) until the joy is gone from that thing you'd loved, until your fury overwhelms your… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
“from the Prize winning poem - UNBORN in the book Terra Affirmative. "Under the surface / her body is curled, / seed… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Please welcome Professor Varen Nethers, famous depressed dead poets historian and author of the bestselling books Unlocking your Poe-tential: A Writer's Guide… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
![“[Rihanna] I know you've been hurt by someone else I can tell by the way you carry yourself. If you let me, here's what I'll do I'll take care of you (I'll take, I'll take, I'll take) I've loved and I've lost. [Drake: verse 1] I've asked about you and they've told me things but my mind didn't…” quote by Drake](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/844/drake-44_following-your-heart_rihanna-i-know-you-ve-been-hurt-by-someo_2666407.jpg)
![“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is a whole series of converging reasons why it is somewhat easier for a poet than a prose writer to feel at home in an authoritarian society.[...]what the poet is saying- that is…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f01/george-orwell-57_freedom-of-speech_it-is-not-certain-whether-the-effects-of_2123485.jpg)
