I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The greatest relationships are those in which love is not treated as a noun, but as a verb; with romance not viewed… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, a song is no song 'til you sing it, and love in your… — Oscar Hammerstein Copy Share Image
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“This dream the world is having about itself includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
There isn't a grand plan at work in the progression of the books with respect to the line. I do want the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
“An oracle must cross the moat of logic and reach the inner poet that resides, perhaps repressed but nonetheless alive, within all… — Carol K. Anthony Copy Share Image
At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
You are a shell of a person, like a human but hollower. The second you quote somebody, you are a motherfu*king follower.… — Syoung Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Like Emily Dickinson, I ain’t afraid of slant rhyme / And that’s the end of this verse; emcee’s out on a high.” — John Green Copy Share Image
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“There is no one to blame but me— me and my stupidity— for believing in a vain man like you.” — Josie Dabish Copy Share Image
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended,… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
“I am crazy and bold enough to think that I CAN change the world - one poem, one book, one heart at… — Adiela Akoo Copy Share Image
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
“Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote that “the future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. — William Collins Copy Share Image
I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Rigveda: Book No 1. Hyme No. 164 verse 46: “Truth, one and the same be, Wise describe it differently” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
“Me han dicho —a modo de crítica— que vivo en la luna. Les he dicho —a modo de crítica— que viven en… — Jaime Jaramillo Escobar Copy Share Image
“I love you every day -for the code and the blush and the shrug of it. Make your mind up in me,… — Jacob Mcarthur Mooney Copy Share Image
The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan. — Cheng Man-ch'ing Copy Share Image
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“I don't want to heal you. I want to love you until your scars merge with the love bites on your skin.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have but the past to parent us?” — Kathleen Driskell Copy Share Image
Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them,… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
