That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are &… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps, its ability to penetrate the multidimensional layers of the human condition at all, that makes poetry and art so… — Atalina Wright Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“…[F]or the Lovers the place of worship Is the arch of the Beloved’s eyebrows. O Morning breeze, if you perchance Should find… — Amir Khusrow Dehlavi Copy Share Image
“The practice of buying off the Vikings will always be associated with Æthelred in particular… [but] it was not something which proceeded… — Simon Keynes Copy Share Image
A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I am old I shall become an itinerant poet and wear a straw hat and never worry about love again. Tuesday,” — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
“It was likely, then that this—-this stumbling walk on a wet night across a ploughed field-—meant death. Death—-the thing one had always… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping White Ophelia floats like a great lily; Floats very slowly, lying… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
