“ Second Fig Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!” — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course,… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
'Sunshine Superman' was a pioneering work that for the first time presented a fusion of Celtic, jazz, folk, rock, and Indian music… — Donovan Copy Share Image
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“Why did you pour tender fire so quickly, over my life’s cool leaves? Who pointed the way to you? What flower, what… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“Mungkin seseorang masih tak tahu lirih perih dalam rintik rindu ini. Selamat malam, kamu yg berlalu dalam gerimis.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Your life is a stage and you are the poet so pour your heart out, let them listen and be heard. Let… — Pamela Matongo Copy Share Image
“A message from Love: Write my name in silent script upon your heart; and then… go anywhere, and be what you have… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I will only let you touch me if your hands are so full of intention that every brush of your palms feels… — Azra. T Copy Share Image
Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Professor Sung-bae Park taught Buddhism to primarily Judeo-Christian kids who needed one course in a world religion and could fit him in… — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“Poetry comes to me like breathing. I inhale and breathe in the fragrances, flavors, emotions, sentiments, and feelings of people and places… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.” — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I love you so much my heart is sure. As time goes on I love you more, your happy smile, your loving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“[On Jason Mashak's “I Was Trained to See Shadows”, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth,… — John Bennett Copy Share Image
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is… — Eamon Grennan Copy Share Image
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