Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“In the Christmas season of 1822, Clement Clarke Moore, a prosperous New York scholar and landowner, wrote a series of verses in… — Gerry Bowler Copy Share Image
Kisses like poetry, like writing sonnets, quatrains, cinquains free verse desire Kisses like ballads, your tongue on the roof of my mouth.… — Azra T Copy Share Image
“Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“They've written songs about this feeling, and poems and books, and movies. All of them telling us to live each moment like… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength.… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something… — Bashō Matsuo Copy Share Image
“Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she… — Allyse Near Copy Share Image
Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I was writing a poem, and suddenly, I fell asleep on a page. I was dreaming of you. You were talking to… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
“Good poetry, like music or a sweet touch, can doctor us up, be an antidote for an hour or longer, help us… — Daniel Ladinsky Copy Share Image
“I will wake you up early even though I know you like to stay through the credits. I will leave pennies in… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“Jonson wrote a poem and called his son His best piece of poetrie A lovely line a little loathsome I loved that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“3:29:50 pm what is it that you love about him is it the way he lets you down incapable of lifting you… — R.H. Sin Copy Share Image
“I wear my loneliness like a taffeta dress riding up my thigh, and you cannot help but want me. You think it's… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
“What else is a poem about? The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an… — Garret Freymann-Weyr Copy Share Image
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
“Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.… — JoAnn Durgin Copy Share Image
“I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy.… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Title: Blue Light Lounge Sutra For The Performance Poets At Harold Park Hotel the need gotta be so deep words can't answer… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What has preceded in verses 1–37 is designed not to mitigate the harsh circumstances of verses 38–45 but to be a foil… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“A friend who teaches at a top university once asked her class to memorize thirty lines of the eighteenth-century poet Alexander Pope.… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well… — Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Is this where the light faded out forever? Where the cat was finally killed by caught tongue? Where hand no longer wandered… — Mellon Black Copy Share Image
In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
