Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running… — Gu Cheng Copy Share Image
Poet, patting more nonsense foamed From the sea, conceive for thecourts Of these academies, the diviner health Disclosed in common forms. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“The white western patriarchal ordering of things requires that we believe there is an inherent conflict between what we feel and what… — Nancy K. Bereano (introduction to Sister Outsider Copy Share Image
If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate, but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter, If finely-wrought talents don’t weigh in… — Rosy Cole Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.” — Hafiz Copy Share Image
“When the prophet read this verse: If God wishes to guide anyone, He expands his breast for Islam (6 : 125), he… — Imam Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“The physical impact of taiko music, along with the sheer visual poetry of a choreographed ensemble presenting its music in perfect synchrony,… — Gil Asakawa Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason,… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
