“The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“There are no good tights, Rare they are, a rare sight. You roll and roll Inside a new hole, They´re only good… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“What I know is nothing but that we are a spring path of autumn light carved into a river of ancient singing.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Nothing is as endearing as a handwritten letter scribed by the person who holds your heart spellbound.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“There’s a Heartrender at the Little Palace who can recite epic poetry for hours. Then you’d wish you had died.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“ I will be very careful the next time I fall in love , she told herself. Also, she had made a… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“I belong with the trees, the wind, the earth beneath my feet. I belong in the land of enchanting things. But mostly,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard I try to forget you, you always come back to my thoughts When you hear me singing I… — Jane Bierhorst Copy Share Image
“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“I must say my prayers today whether I feel devout or not; but that is only as I must learn my grammar… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“It's easy to hide behind a smile, that's why it is so important to search instead inside the eyes.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“How is it that hearts hold on to memories with the strength of hope and possibilities.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. — Eddie Shaw Copy Share Image
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
“{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.” — Andrea Bouchaud Copy Share Image
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless, our chances of being alive together statistically nonexistent;” — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight. — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
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