We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image… — Enya Copy Share Image
“Such hungry desperation in a single kiss when it's enamored in love and bathed in bliss.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal. — Walther von der Vogelweide Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Sublime wonders lie in store, I am shown a regal residence; a mighty kingdom, an empire with more grandeur than before ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Today I want to leave the world I want to leave the pain Leave the heartache I know where it is going… — April Nichole Copy Share Image
Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The Poetry of Love We see the world with the eyes of a small child. We visualize the beauty of the world… — Katerina Kostaki Copy Share Image
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“dreamers--which the English call splash; Arabian poets gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase--the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I am becoming the woman I've wanted, grey at the temples, soft body, delighted, cracked up by life with a laugh that's… — Jayne Brown Copy Share Image
“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
“There's a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called "Splittings" that I thought of when I read your… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“A butterfly is a travelling flower, turning the air into a garden and carrying the poetry of spring on wings painted by… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell… — Phyllis Gotlieb Copy Share Image
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash. — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Through these uncharted roads, I hope to escape my recollections; I am so tired of seeing signboards, and following the same directions.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“L.S. Jones @lovenutumoncho 15h "Poetry is the triumphant spirit demonstrating it's grace in spite it's painful journey to expression!" LSJONES” — L.S. Jones Copy Share Image
The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“Quit bothering with angels, I say. They’re no good for Indians. Remember what happened last time some white god came floating across… — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
“The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid. — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“peace was never at the forefront of my mind. a war waged inside of me, but i began to take joy in… — Mecca-Amirah Jackson Copy Share Image
“We are a handful of dust in God’s image Before we return again to dusty grave Life isn’t a war, it’s a… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
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