“((والشيخ والشيخة إذا زنيا فارجموهما البتة)) {{Thus the old man and the old woman if they conducted fornication absolutely stoning them}} this… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“ Gospel The new grass rising in the hills, the cows loitering in the morning chill, a dozen or more old browns… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“ The Quitter When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“We live in an age of universal inquiry, ergo of universal scepticism. The prophecies of the poet, the dreams of the philosopher… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“ A Hard Life With Memory I’m a poor audience for my memory. She wants me to attend her voice nonstop, but… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“The Psalms are among the oldest poems in the world, and they still rank with any poetry in any culture, ancient or… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The next day, he read to me a freshly composed dirge in which the circumstances of his wife’s death and burial were… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“The Gauze of Flowers, A Love Poem” Remember when we couldn’t name it because it was a meadow wild with tulips, both… — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ago, when… — Anthony Thwaite Copy Share Image
“What is the colour of Christmas? Red? The red of the toyshops on a dark winter’s afternoon, Of Father Christmas and the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
“These Things, whose essential life want to express, first ask you, “Are you free? Are you prepared to devote all your love… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Mark but this Flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; It suck’d me first, and now… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“At least I want to get up early one more morning, before sunrise. Before the birds, even. I want to throw cold… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“This is the first principle of democracy: that the essential things in men are the things they hold in common, not the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Cook was a captain of the powder-days When captains, you might have said, if you had been Fixed by their glittering stare,… — Kenneth Slessor Copy Share Image
“The humorous self-sufficiency of genius is the unity of a modest resignation in the world and a proud elevation above the world:… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“somewhere there is a women in China holding a black umbrella so she won’t taste the salt of the rain when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poem from Rev. Jim Cotter, as listed on the opening pages of “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss: ~ God be… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“I once told a very serious writer/poet I knew about how obsessed I was with various women’s lives. I think I was… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Season's Greetings by Stewart Stafford Season's Greetings To those we are needing, While I am leading The Festive charge. Christmas love is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“But that's a good match for the way I've always approached life. I've always believed in motion and action, in following connections… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“Permission Granted" You do not have to choose the bruised peach or misshapen pepper others pass over. You don't have to bury… — David Allen Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Poem of Thanks Years later, long single, I want to turn to his departed back, and say, What gifts we had of… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“In most cases the name is unpoetical, although the fact is poetical. In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“must be wrestled: this is no account of inspiration; it figures instead strenuous poetic labor.66 Proteus sponsors a sense of poetic form… — Robert Von Hallberg Copy Share Image
“No Child of Yours I saw a child hide in the corner So I went and asked her name She was so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to another. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“When Straight Women Flirt …With Me She sits on my lesbian lap both of us too much wine arm around my shoulder… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“Part of Wordsworth’s complaint was directed towards the smoke, congestion, poverty and ugliness of cities, but clean-air bills and slum clearance would… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Vanda (as Dunayev): I am a pagan. I am a Greek. I love the ancients not for their pediments or their poetry,… — David Ives Copy Share Image
“You know I understand how you feel.... the loneliness that sets in....how empty your heart aches wishing you had someone near....to hold...… — N2 Copy Share Image
“Surely, then, mere style, or language, never was, as it never could, naturally, it never could, possibly be praised, by well-informed readers;… — Percival Stockdale Copy Share Image
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
“You carried your infant daughter in one arm, and walked with me, a child six years of age, tired, trudging beside you.… — Parnaz Foroutan Copy Share Image
“There were just all those evenings we sat together and it doesn't seem possible that it will never be again. It was… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
