Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill.… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
My love for you runs so deep, It is hard for me to even sleep. Every time I see your eye, All… — Nit Copy Share Image
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their… — Homer Copy Share Image
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Me han dicho —a modo de crítica— que vivo en la luna. Les he dicho —a modo de crítica— que viven en… — Jaime Jaramillo Escobar Copy Share Image
“In the early 1920s, Lewis hoped to be remembered as an atheist poet, whose bitter and forceful condemnations of an uncaring and… — Alister McGrath Copy Share Image
One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.” — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
“From ragbag, stumblebum, peripatetic lout To bonfire of catnip that burns itself out-- Bristled sack of hiss & claws Cinched at the maw--” — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“My father says most people who say they like poetry only pretend to like it.' 'I guess you like it?' 'I love… — Laird Koenig Copy Share Image
