I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“When people say, 'I've told you fifty times,' They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, 'I've… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who… — Plato Copy Share Image
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life,… — John Green Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
Do you want to guess what's in here?" I asked Dash. "I think I've got it figured out already. There's a new… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was… — Jack Jason Copy Share Image
When I grow bored, pick up the pen and begin thinking. Thinking and writing because it's chasing a dream, hoping to be… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that.… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I want people to see the beauty of that condition through the eyes of the characters. In doing that, they can allow… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me.… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said,… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
