“No sooner was she twenty-three years old than she was twenty-eight; no sooner twenty-eight than thirty-one; time is speeding past her while… — Maylis de Kerangal Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love. The world is so full of love. Love fills the sky. Love is spread all over the ground. Music is love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“i want the moon tattooed on my wrists my grandmother keeps asking me to pray, i don’t have the heart to tell… — irynka Copy Share Image
“The Green Rose by Stewart Stafford Through fractured eyes, I see the rose I once plucked, In another man's hands. And mistakes… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I love you in my very own way. Like a stone loves the mosses around it Like a sea loves the pebbles… — Arzum Uzun Copy Share Image
“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“ HOME no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
“Listen. Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall? Look. Do you sense that you can’t see love? Touch. Do you grasp… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“just then a little black ant struggles by alone, alone. And in that moment, I want us to give ourselves over to… — Michael Kleber-Diggs Copy Share Image
“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
Today is such a strange day. The news is out about the Russians and mini-Donald. This seems like a turning point, but… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory and defeat. Everything moves toward the end, when… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as… — David Patterson Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The heart is built of starlight And time. A pinprick of longing lost in the dark. An unbroken chord linking the Infinite… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write some words you'd remember. Words so alert they'd leap from the paper, crawl up your shoulder, lie by… — C.L. Foster Copy Share Image
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“If you were not so gentle, If you were hard to please, If you were never patient And always ill at ease,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Don’t pack out! To some people, you make life bright When you decide to dim your light Their lives will be full… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.'… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“ O Deus Ego Amo Te Oh God, I love Thee mightily, Not only for Thy saving me, Nor yet because who… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
“How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Twenty-two poems covered the period from Lev’s first serious efforts to his arrest in 1948 at the age of nineteen. Very Mandelstamian,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you move on then I have to go but I swear I wont be ok, but I know you will be… — Megannn Copy Share Image
“O Sailor! It’s the way I want to be It’s beyond the pale for me It’s what being unknown is all about… — Tapan Ghosh Copy Share Image
“The Weaver My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft… — Benjamin Malachi Franklin Copy Share Image
“The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard you try.… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
![“The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard you try. What good are explanations? There is no possibility of explaining how such a work [Mozart's Requiem, in the instance] could ever have come into being. (The same holds true for certain poems…” quote by Elfriede Jelinek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/elfriede-jelinek-4485_analysis_the-ph-d-is-one-of-the-chosen-who-know-t_1802299.jpg)
