I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their…

“It’s easy to cherry-pick passages from scripture and use them for your own purposes, without considering a verse’s original context.”

— Daniel D. Maurer

I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your…

— Orhan Pamuk

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you.

— Jeff Guinn

Try this. At a dinner party sometime, kick off the conversation with: "I believe that the most important objective for every human being is…

— Robert White

So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just maybe, could…

— Sam Kean

“Life isn't always about fireworks. Your fireworks will come, Sarah. And they'll fizzle out just as fast. Life's an experience, not a destination. All…

— Marilyn Grey

“It was safe to say that neither had ever known the other sort of love, the sort with fireworks and racing hearts and physical…

— Kate Morton

People have forgotten what 4th of July really is. Its the day we got the freedom we use everyday. Its not fireworks and parties.…

— Anonymous

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous…

— John Green

Am shinning like fireworks over your sad empty town

— Taylor Swift

“Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards against tinsel…

— Vera Nazarian

“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,…

— Anton Chekhov

“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing…

— Virginia Woolf

The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of…

— Jodi Picoult