What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians still don’t understand the ball our hands made, or how your electrocuted grandparents made it possible for you to light my… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“for once in our lives / Everything became a You and nothing was an It.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Democracy is not always chapter and verse, written out in advance. — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
“Old McDonald had a restaurant, E, I, E, I, O, And in that restaurant was some beef, E, I, E, I, O,… — Harry Whitewolf Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it. — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
“Intensely devotional poetry was written by poets, some of whom were born Muslim but worshipped Hindu deities. One of the best known… — Romila Thapar Copy Share Image
“Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“But the inside stuff Isn't in these poems About how to be a REAL HUMAN BEING Because no one can tell you… — Bobby Markels Copy Share Image
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, poetry was a bestselling genre rather than the cultish phenomenon it is now.” — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be… — Alysia Harris Copy Share Image
To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Everything in life hurts when u find love u cannot get rid of it even though if tht person still has feelings… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
