Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“I'm so good that I'll do what you want me to do--for I feel there's something else you want me to do."… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example)… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“When a poet speaks of truth to another poet, what hope has truth?” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“And then there is the poet Kenneth Koch, who while travelling in Kenya came to a railroad crossing at which this sign… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich, emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping. — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
“About novel Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott. Q: What does the title "Imperfect Birds" mean? It's a line from a poem by… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Snow-flakes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“. . .In a heartbeat, you will fall right into that novel, that poem, the story that you are most in love… — Terry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Then I will not repine Knowing that bird of mine Though flown shall in a distant tree Bright melody for me Return.” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the first poet said about our kind, young Ren? 'Cats are the great mystery, born in that space… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard Copy Share Image
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Love was poetry in its purest form. It existed when it did, and there was nothing that could match it's truth, its… — Robin Schwarz Copy Share Image
The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Tra-la-las and doo-be-do's became a Neil Sedaka trademark. I was the king of the tra-la-las and doo-be-do's in the '50s and '60s.… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
“As time passed, I felt especially grateful to my family and friends who continued to check in and show up. On the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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