“Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share. ” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“THE FIGURE A POEM MAKES No one can really hold that ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I was doing a poetry thing in Tottenham and I remember walking down this road looking for the address, the pub where… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than… — Herb Elliott Copy Share Image
“The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“The artist's transcendence is achieved through success at diagnosing and naming the maladies of the age. Artists tell a different sort of… — Gregory E. Ganssle David LaRocca Copy Share Image
“There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask "What if I fall?" Oh but my… — Erin Hanson Copy Share Image
Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Mathematicians and equations, Couldn't find a simple solution. Poems and quotes, Not even Shakespeare can express the emotions of love. — BuddhaChild Copy Share Image
One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“i have to believe the day will come where i don't flinch whenever i hear his name. - some names will always… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry — all of the past you read is usually quite great — but it… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels –… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, and with the truth,… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
“It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond," said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts… — Eric Siblin Copy Share Image
Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves And… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“...they wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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