Translations are very important these days, since an average person can only know 2-3 three languages. We have so many languages in… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“Night after night on starry wings Night lovers soared so high Miles apart, across the oceans Their love forgot to sigh In… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“But if you could read my thoughts, you would be welcome to come in and listen to the story of my life.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If the feet of enlightenment moved, the great ocean would overflow; If that head bowed, it would look down upon the heavens.… — Paul Reps Copy Share Image
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time… — Steve Yarbrough Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“And it seemed that my flesh crawled with the gentleness of those glaucous things evoked by the verse. It was as if… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“In certain ways the lives of the poets and the lives of the saints are similar: the solitary travails, the epiphanic awakening… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
“ Remember Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Looking across the many strands of poetry, we can never be certain which poems were only read in private and which were… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“I returned to my pillow and comforter, both of which I loved; they smelled like lavender, and were so cozy, poems should… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“…he is invariably a kind of super-size but unmistakably ‘classical’ neurotic, an aberrant who only occasionally, and never deeply, wishes to surrender… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever:… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But not to know error is to lie, is to spit up poison through the harrowing margins of weakened mineral campaigns. It… — Will Alexander Copy Share Image
I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I am probably going to pay for this at some point, but I think pretty much everyone I come into contact with… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often.… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When I'm constructing a poem, I'm trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Let me live my final days whole. Let my memory remain that I might know love's face. Life don't unwrap me to… — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“What was exchanged in the language of their eyes, more perfect than their lips, the language afforded the soul so that no… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“If it chance your eye offends you, Pluck it out lad, and be sound: 'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' We will probably never know in what sense he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign… — Eve Marie Mont Copy Share Image
“On Becoming a Poet in the 1950s" There was love and there was trees. Either you could stay inside and probe your… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
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