... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is… — Lipman Bers Copy Share Image
“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's… — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
“Domestic If, when studying road atlases while taking, as you call it, your morning dump, you shout down to me names like… — Carl Phillips Copy Share Image
“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie, Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie, Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour n’a point… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
“One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
“I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Ever word collector sure know that feeling, whether you've been catching songs or poems or stories. You've been caught in the magic."… — Natalie Lloyd Copy Share Image
A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for the Bible verses that teach me how important my words are. My words can cause… — Glenn Langohr Copy Share Image
“Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, I Shall keep perpetual summer here; I shall Refuse to let one startled swallow die, Or,… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“Now Now is the time… Now is the time – Make a change Now is the time – All is strange Now… — Christopher Earle Copy Share Image
People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist… — Ann Beattie 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 Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things?… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
