Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Well, being a poet is a funny kind of jazz. It doesn’t get you anything. It doesn’t get you any money, or… — Daniel Klawitter Copy Share Image
My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
A Friend Like You. A friend like you is like no other friend. A friend like you is a friend I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“To mee, who with eternal Famine pine, Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven, There best, where most with ravin I might… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“at man’s height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“And Iseult rose up where she sat apart, And with her sweet soul deepening her deep eyes Cast the furs from her… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
In grad school, a friend and I gave ourselves the task of writing poems in the voice of Beyoncé and Lady Gaga… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
“Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead.… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“… People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Who are you? Where do you fit into poetry and myth? Do you know who I think you are, Ramsay? I think… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Secure in his flight Rider on the constant winds Hawk flies through his days Looks then to the east Prompted by fate’s… — Steve Robison Copy Share Image
“[Poem: Slates of Grey] Sullen faces like slates of grey— What I’d seen on a walk today. Bodies rushing bodies bolting Time… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
“Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day,… — Robin Craig Clark Copy Share Image
“We never come out untouched from the spell of beauty. While we break away from the commonplace, upscaling and veering from the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
“There is only the one like me, the companion man or woman, who can wake me from my torpor, set off the… — René Char Copy Share Image
![“[Poem: Slates of Grey] Sullen faces like slates of grey— What I’d seen on a walk today. Bodies rushing bodies bolting Time for life a disregarding. Money to make and to grow old What about the hands to hold? Deadlines, projects, people to meet What about our own two feet. Sullen faces like slates…” quote by Jess C Scott](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/904/jess-c-scott-15952_city_poem-slates-of-grey-sullen-faces-like-sl_482074.jpg)
