A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“TIMMS: I don't see how we can understand it. Most of the stuff poetry's about hasn't happened to us yet. HECTOR: But… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that… — Yuna Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The unspoken hurts. From everyone hidden corner it lurks. Seeking out its pray. We all want to run away. In the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What does it all mean, poet? Well, Your brains beat into rhythm, you tell What we felt only; you expressed You hold… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“It took 3.8 billion years of triumphant evolution, remarkable collision, an unbelievable confluence made by sheer will and influence of this infinite… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Good and bad, two ways Of moving about your death By the grinding sea, King of your heart in the blind days,… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
“I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Sonnet V I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place patiently the river asks for its… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“THIS IS WHY He will never be given to wonder much if he was the mouth for some cruel force that said… — Michael Ryan Copy Share Image
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
So many colours, pictures and poetry could describe your love; but now that Im about to tell you how true, pure and… — Bel Claveria Carig Martinez Copy Share Image
In terms of poetry, I worry about being far from the voice of my childhood, the rhythms of Ulster speech, and the… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“And tell me everything, tell chain by chain, and link by link, and step by step; sharpen the knives you kept hidden… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Alone Again" I think of each of them living somewhere else sitting somewhere else standing somewhere else sleeping somewhere else or maybe… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Not a scar just psychological, But as material as roaches, Street corners and billy clubs. A wound reopened systematically, Inflicted with economic… — Cabrini Gulag Copy Share Image
Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
“PART 2 I felt doomed to death, But in a flash, Before I could reduce my thoughts To an emotion, I felt… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
