There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“My friends often state in the midst of otherwise loving group chat missives that life is trash, though we all keep trying… — Joshua Bennett Copy Share Image
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
“In your sky, you are the brightest star. Without you light, it’s dark like tar. So love yourself to enlighten others.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“To plunge one thing into the shape or nature of another is a fundamental gesture of creative insight, part of how we… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
“Are all Dumnonian warriors so ill-mannered?" she asked the table at large in an acid voice. "You want warriors to be courtiers?"… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“And although it was in a hospital that she lay and I sat next to her—it is always that eternal poetry of… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“This is my song for Gabriel, The Angel of the Word, I've sung to you so many times, This time I may… — Philip Dodd Copy Share Image
One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I adore Pasolini. His films are poetic and I consume a lot of poetry. It's very important to me. I want my… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
“...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Well, let them seize on all they can;— One treasure still is mine,— A heart that loves to think on thee, And… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Don't call what isn't prophecy "prophecy." Don't say "the Lord told me" if you're not about to quote a Bible verse.” — Dan Phillips Copy Share Image
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby. She sits still as the boat silently floats… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
“She lends her pen, to thoughts of him, that flow from it, in her solitary. For she is his poet, And he… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I need you like the roses need the rain. Like the poet needs the pain. I just can't live without you. My… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We want poems that kill assassin poems, poems that shoot guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys. And take their weapon, leaving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.” — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
Do you know Difference between poetry n lecture? anything said by girlfriend is poetry and anything by wife is lecture...:P — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I was kind of influenced by, for example, the meaning of words in songs, that's kind of my poetry that gives me… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's… — William Everson Copy Share Image
My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
“A scar on the heart will heal. Let your love remain pure as if it was never cut in the first place.” — Aline Alzime Copy Share Image
“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.” — BORGES JORGE LUIS Copy Share Image
IT'S A POETRY WHICH DESCRIBES THE FEELINGS OF MOTHER MARY ON JESUS CRUCIFICTION,SHE CRIES,FELT PAIN,SORROWFUL, AND HELPLESS,CAN' T SAFE JESUS. — SUNITA FLORANCE JOHN Copy Share Image
“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each… — Melissa Regas Copy Share Image
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