“Receio que a poesia é pior que o sexo tântrico: não mexe nem sai de cima. I'm afraid that poetry is worse… — Victor Eustáquio Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love (all the merry… — E. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships, and… — Revell Copy Share Image
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
What about your promise, the swear, the intention..u said tht the day my heart forgets you will be the last day of… — Ritzy Copy Share Image
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better. — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“That sadness that you do not speak of, that haunts you in the ache of midnight. Give it to me. I want… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
I'm searching for a deep connection, my heart is open, I need that sweet affection, I'm so true it's past your comprehension,… — Cody Joseph Copy Share Image
“When I took my poetry class in school. I read an e. e. cummings poem. I don’t mind eels except how they… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“These hands are unlike any other strong but gentle caring loving and understanding” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
“this thing upon me crawling like a snake, terrifying my love of commonness, some call Art some call Poetry; it’s not death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
“I want your scars, your darkness, your secrets. I want to see the interior of your soul.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.” — Frederick Smock Copy Share Image
He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“I looked at all the trees and didn’t know what to do. A box made out of leaves. What else was in… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
