There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers'… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
“After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I grow so tired of speaking my emotions to you. I open my mouth and dust spills out instead of feelings.” — Gabriel Gadfly Copy Share Image
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“Kiss with your soul, where lips can never reach. Touch with your eyes, penetrate deep. Love every part, fully, complete.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“It’s a thorny road for dreamers and poets who fantasize of majestic places and deep-seated desires of the heart that their hands… — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
“As a young man, he was already rather pompous and full of himself, concerned with what he would write and with his… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face; It is in his limbs and joints also, it… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“At present they [philosophers] seem to be in a very lamentable condition, and such as the poets have given us but a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer,… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“So many times in a single day we glimpse a view beyond the apparent. Write those moments down. They might not speak… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the rain-drops fall… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Delta, Delta—” I wish I knew what else to say. I want to give her poetry, but that’s not me, so I… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that's to say, patently unfair. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre. — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
“Tonight, I won't dream, because nobody has held me and no hands have strayed and even though I'm drunk with love, my… — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring." — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps, its ability to penetrate the multidimensional layers of the human condition at all, that makes poetry and art so… — Atalina Wright Copy Share Image
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way… — Agustin Gomez-Arcos Copy Share Image
Such is life... To live, to die... To be but a ripple in the waters of time… And when the ripples do… — Takashi Azathoth Faust Copy Share Image
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
“I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Most of my songs are based off poetry, but I mainly write to write. I never know which form the words are… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
![“At present they [philosophers] seem to be in a very lamentable condition, and such as the poets have given us but a faint notion of in their descriptions of the punishment of Sisyphus and Tantalus. For what can be imagin'd more tormenting, than to seek with eagerness, what for ever flies us; and…” quote by David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/629/david-hume-538_philosophy_at-present-they-philosophers-seem-to-be_1811117.jpg)
