“It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and… — Barbara Trapido Copy Share Image
“Once on yellow sheet of paper with green lines, he wrote a poem and he called it “Spot” because that was the… — Earl Reum Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
“ A Faint Music by Robert Hass Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. When everything broken is broken, and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that poets are toddlers in a cathedral, slobbering on wooden blocks and piling them up in the light of… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse,… — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
“A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“English: Ô, take this eager dance you fool, don’t brandish your stick at me. I have several reasons to travel on, on… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“But will anyone again look at that tree, read that poem, love a dog in quite my way? I am a particular… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study -… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts; There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy, The precious poetry of life shall… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart." "And on your worst days?" she had… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t sure whether he was a grad student, poet, actor, stripper, or brilliant combination of all those things. But the man… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“It's 8a.m. and time to rest It's 10a.m. and time to relax It's noon and time for repose It's 3p.m. and time… — Francesco Marciuliano Copy Share Image
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of… — David Truman Copy Share Image
“But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?” — Plato Copy Share Image
“The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
“A book, a poem, a play — they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“in the poetry that opens his book the Preacher is not commenting on what life is like without Christ. He is not… — David Gibson Copy Share Image
