Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“When the holly’s in the red And the pine is in the green, When the mornings all are frosty, In a brilliant… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
“The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The moon is a loyal companion.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only… — Anthony Anaxagorou Copy Share Image
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves,… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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
