What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born… — Herman E. Kittredge 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
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A friend of mine, a poet, Rebecca Wolff recently said to me, "You know, your stories are really voice-driven," and I guess… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art;… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that… — Clive James Copy Share Image
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The ground will never complain how much weight you add on it, how much you dig it and how much you grow… — Yando Wanii Nimbo Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
