We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“As children we learned our shadow is a darkness we never totally shake until we lie down, pull the shades, draw the… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
If offered a good role, I would like to work in a good Punjabi film. This land has produced great writers, poets… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
“Covers me, he lowers To whisper in my ear. Tucks me in, I wear This warm blanket of dark paradise, And my… — Bri Miller Copy Share Image
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“The Night Is Darkening Round M The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Some of the verse in "AshthavakraGIta" are so powerful that will take you to the far beyond cosmos and you will feel… — Pawan Parashar Copy Share Image
“As the Latin poet Horace once noted, the intellect of the mind knows nothing. Instead, people use it to make common sense… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
“The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to… — Margaret R. Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot. — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel. — James Wright Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
“I only wear suits to funerals and I only cash checks when the bank is about to take the house. from "surely… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
“Let the dust accumulate. You have a story to tell, adventures waiting, life to love, love to share. The dust can wait.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.” — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
“The cowboy/soldier is a poem a Vietnam veteran, Lenard Cohan, shares with Mary Devstena, a veteran of Iraq, in the novel Army… — J.S. McInroy Copy Share Image
I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I dig, you dig, we dig, he dig, she dig, they dig… Its not a beautiful poem, but its very deep :P — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The words of the letter had long since been whisked away by time, but the poems he kept prisoner in his heart.” — Felix Alexander Copy Share Image
“The first thing fading is your beauty the least trustworthy is your mind down here on this earth nothing's of any worth—in… — Fabian W. Williges Copy Share Image
