There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“...does it seem strange in the loneliness of the present time, that I run to you?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sakes. Now, I… — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Copy Share Image
Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh.… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out… — Mike Young Copy Share Image
I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I open my Bible to read, a verse leaps off the page and I know God is speaking to me.… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Choice- Judgement. Black coffee acid on an empty stomach. Perception. Cool, clear water.” — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
“ A Blessing Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those… — James Wright Copy Share Image
“It took 3.8 billion years of triumphant evolution, remarkable collision, an unbelievable confluence made by sheer will and influence of this infinite… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow she’d look up tattoo removal. They were doing big things with lasers now. When Cal was just a little more stable,… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The Choice You can carve out a life for yourself just as your bones have been carved from some larger bone your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write … so long as we write continually as well… — Patricia Goodson Copy Share Image
“They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“Ye who have laid your love to rest, And wept above their lifeless clay, Know not the anguish of that breast, Whose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The sidewalks flash silver with mica. Skyline smeared with geese. By way of recognition I lost the sound of your voice.” — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.” — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Every day begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
