The question shouldn't be is there life after death but is there life before death... — Kate Miller Copy Share Image
“He gives me that hint of a half smile tempered with those smoky eyes, a look that’s probably stolen virginities, broken hearts,… — Roxanne St. Claire Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest Roman poets was Ovid, an older contemporary of Jesus (his dates: 43 BCE–17 CE). His most famous work… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“And I have some poetry that I would like to recite to you in honor of the recent, um, transformations in your… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“One night they walked while the moon rose and poured a great burden of glory over the garden until it seemed fairyland… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death; the walk with eyes… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“We are the kind of Love Story that keeps souls awake at night and causes hearts to have stage fright.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my… — Reclaiming my Life Isabella Koldras Copy Share Image
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a… — Drew Myron Copy Share Image
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
