“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,… — Sheila Hageman Copy Share Image
“I breathe in... the fragrance of love, and moist sand the one his roses left on both my hands I just keep… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“What I'm saying is: go barefoot. Or walk out with a handstand. Live in possibility and in constant proximity to desire. Don't… — Brad Cran Copy Share Image
You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you.… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Pitbull is, like, one of the most incredible humans. He's an amazing guy, and when we first connected on 'Fireball,' he said,… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
“In later years this is the one memory he wishes would go away and not come back. And the reason he cannot… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I could give all to Time except -- except What I myself have held. But why declare The things forbidden that while… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
“Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The life spills over, some days. She cannot be at rest, Wishes she could explode Like that red tree— The one that… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“The job of the poet—which is somewhat quixotic or Sisyphean—is to express things that one may have sensed or felt but never… — Paul S. Atkins Copy Share Image
A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a… — John Pudney Copy Share Image
“I came up with a new reason To write your name today I plagiarized each letter From a love note you wrote… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Every poem, for me, begins with a question I don’t have the answer to, and here, in ‘Hypothesis,’ the question is whether… — Paul Tran Copy Share Image
The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“Silly little monster” all would say. They’d scratch its head and turn away until it snatched their tiny noses. They couldn’t even… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing a poem to decompress from my experiences on a movie set, I usually just cook and it's like… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“the train plunges on through the pitch-black night I never knew I liked the night pitch-black sparks fly from the engine I… — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Definitely, some of the artistry and poetry has been lost in modern chess. It's very rare that I play a game where… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
“Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be. That door of the library… — Bernard Kops Copy Share Image
“Creativeness is not merely a matter of painting pictures or writing poems, which is good to do, but which is very little… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would… — Sonita Alizadeh Copy Share Image
The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“But nothing of all that the peoples of Europe have produced is worth the first known poem to have appeared among them.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“As I was a stranger in Olondria, I knew nothing of the splendour of its coasts, nor of Bain, the Harbour City,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“Does God know the number of kisses before we fall in love? Yesterday, I was nobody and I believed myself important. Today,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
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