If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not… — Adrian Forsyth Copy Share Image
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
“Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude. Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the… — Taylor Patton Copy Share Image
Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry… Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
“when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity of my city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“….unable to find a title for her last published novel, she wrote six lines which included her eventual title The Birds Fall… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
“ The Listeners 'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
“Next, there was a poet turned to science, and a second poet, and another. And him, the thick turned thin, a starling… — Tina May Hall Copy Share Image
“Some guys get fifteen years, others get life. So death for Ed but not for everyone. Cos it all depends on who… — Sarah Crossan Copy Share Image
“She is wild love and eternal fire - A sensual blend of soft heart and burning desire. Yes, an acquired taste, but… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“In each speck of mud of which we are made, however small or seemingly insignificant, one can find traces of the matter… — Vladimir Tasić Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“I am most spectacular in convalescence / of the night sky / when I break the shell / in search of silence… — Aaron Kent Copy Share Image
To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“7. The first time I arrived here, I never thought I am small and luminous 8. The body, burdened and miraculous 9.… — Erika Meitner Copy Share Image
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“Nails that claw by a beautiful mind. A pretty face can leave you blind - Poem 'Small Pain' from 'The B Word:… — S.C. Silver Copy Share Image
God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold… — Grace Noll Crowell Copy Share Image
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“(Modigliani liked Baudelaire's poem about the albatross being mocked by sailors: 'Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule!')” — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Thehorizonallaroundmebreathedoutperfumeannouncingherarrival asthefragranceprecedesafiower. IBNSAFRAL-MARINI,POETOFANDALUSIA” — IBN SAFR AL-MARINI POET OF ANDALUSIA Copy Share Image
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair. [Songs of Longing]” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. — George Oppen Copy Share Image
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