“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
This verse really speaks to me: If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even… — God Copy Share Image
“I am republic I am maoist I am activist and I am this and I am that but why? Why can't; I… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Plus, dreams don't have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.” — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
“When they say Don't I know you? say no. When they invite you to the party remember what parties are like before… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t beautiful. A Winter wedding is a union of elation and depression, red velvet blankets in a cheap motel room stained… — Lucas Regazzi Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably,… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Who can guess the impatience of stone to be ground down, to be a part of something livelier?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
“He remembers which sister I like least and asks how she is doing. (lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')” — Carrie Etter Copy Share Image
“in a split second of letting down my guard and opening up my soul, you corrupted it with this magnificent disease called… — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
“Ever word collector sure know that feeling, whether you've been catching songs or poems or stories. You've been caught in the magic."… — Natalie Lloyd Copy Share Image
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“you’ll find the buildings taller, that the halls are full of ghosts but everything still here is what you remember most” — Savannah Brown Copy Share Image
Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am” — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able… — Elizabeth Bear 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
The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
![“We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the concept of jihad and verses that ISIS now uses to justify beheadings come from. A young man just told me that he went back and read this carefully [and saw] the prophet and his…” quote by Rukmini Maria Callimachi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32c/rukmini-maria-callimachi-34961_allowing_we-know-that-muhammad-waged-war-against_856700.jpg)
