After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation. — Bradford Morrow Copy Share Image
“Some teach you what can't be taught, by turning their back on you & helping you get internally closer to everything you… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“You have already achieved the English-Language poet's most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“until the hunted have their poets then songs of the hunt will always glorify the hunter, not the prey” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One UniVerse for the Living While palaces attest to the power of men, And monuments mark their wars, Little remains of the… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him.… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Taylor sighed. Going head-to-head with Sharpay on a school assignment was really beneath her. But the more Taylor considered it, the more… — Alice Alfonsi Copy Share Image
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Beše to jedan od onih dana koji ne donesu Ništa novo, ali nas zaduže u večnosti.” — Dejan Aleksić Copy Share Image
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“A nation established under God A nation that will only win if we stand together” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“External events beyond your control; Refuse to give them power - let them go.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Usay daka to jan c aa ga ee muj ma jasay rhoo ko us k jan mill ga ee ho anab rafiq — Anab Rafiq Copy Share Image
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
