“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Dying only means moving into a nicer house. We have only gone into the next room. We still are what we have… — Kerry Okines Copy Share Image
We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Class Act. She's a first class act, graced with refinement and tact. But hold on! She has a beastly witty mind, a… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“In getting from Windsor to Detroit there is a choice between a free tunnel and a toll bridge, which turned out to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end, But I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Επιθυμίες Σαν σώματα ωραία νεκρών που δεν εγέρασαν και τάκλεισαν, με δάκρυα, σε μαυσωλείο λαμπρό, με ρόδα στο κεφάλι και στα πόδια… — Constantine P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“Or there were the poets and thinkers. Suppose he had had that passion, and had gone to Sir William Bradshaw, a great… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The things that will be spoken here come from the images and things that I see as well as hear. These object… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
“A demon seduced an angel in the middle of the night and they gave the stars a glimpse. There was nothing casual… — M.J. Abraham Copy Share Image
“There is a Day" There's always a day when I can't believe what was there. There's always that day when I didn't… — Isabel Aanya Leigh Copy Share Image
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Intensely devotional poetry was written by poets, some of whom were born Muslim but worshipped Hindu deities. One of the best known… — Romila Thapar Copy Share Image
“The love of books is for children who glimpse in them a life to come, but I have come to that life… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“She's an irritating, opinionated woman- a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 — 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gumble song, Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“UNDIVIDED I am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Fine sermons have been preached on the text that those who have should share with those who have not, but he who… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“So , you can hate the heir to the throne all you want, write mean poems about him in your diary, but… — Casey McQuiston Copy Share Image
When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying,… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“I make work that is many things at once: poems that are prose, that are pictures, that are poem and picture. Actions… — Jen Besemer Copy Share Image
“When catastrophe strikes compassion and love unite. A storm can't break the spirit of love. A storm may crack your windows, tear… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Recently, a judge of the prestigious 2014 British Forward Prize for Poetry was moved to observe that “there is an awful lot… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
“You have never been as beautiful as you will be through our eyes. You will have never known that the hard edge… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“Jane,' she said, climbing down from the chair. 'Remember last year when I built that model wind tower for you and you… — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“Time machine to the past Step back a few years Old feelings, like Lazarus Suddenly reappear. It's your song on the radio… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“ A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me… — Edgar Allen Poe Copy Share Image
