“I am the contrast. I am forever the crack in the window that lets the winter in. I am forever the moment… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And… — John Keats Copy Share Image
If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts,… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“UNDIVIDED I am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence… — Oscar Wilde 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
In the year of our Lord 1314. Patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior… — William Wallace Copy Share Image
Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
“You have never been as beautiful as you will be through our eyes. You will have never known that the hard edge… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly.Cling to them, survey them… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age… — Clive James Copy Share Image
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
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