And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Outside the window Sky and earth exchange silver. In the moonlight I forget I’m human.” — Wang Xiaoni Copy Share Image
“Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
“Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“She's fire. But she won't burn you... she knows all too well, how it feel to live with ashes.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Take my words read my poetry make my thoughts breathe life why should distances matter? between us there may be oceans there… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“His Adam’s apple jumps up and down. “No, that’s…that’s not right. You’re not beautiful. I think you’re the most exquisite thing I’ve… — Saffron A. Kent Copy Share Image
In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it.… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I think that the moment we're living in offers the best opportunity we've had in a long time in that a lot… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“It's just— eggshell love. Like birds sitting on a power line. One misstep and suddenly, everything is burning. I don't want to… — Darshana Suresh Copy Share Image
“Strike, with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the… — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“... and all the hurts and scars / Of everyday were healed, and I would sleep / Safe with the good-night memory of stars.” — Jane Merchant Copy Share Image
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Take you example by this thing,/ And yield to each his right,/ Lest God with such like miserye/ Your wicked minds requite” — The Children in the Wood Copy Share Image
Dare, to Scream out your verse, whisper the secrets of your heart, and embrace, the truth; of your Soul. — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini Copy Share Image
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool… — Vern Rutsala Copy Share Image
“Drugs to me have always been a pretty girl with a sly smile beckoning me with a finger down the dark path… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I wrote my first poem about a bunny. ‘Bunny, bunny, hop hop hop. White and soft like a little mop.” — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides… — Phineas Fletcher Copy Share Image
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
“Later, we'll look up what was recorded in our history about yours in faraway lands. Then we'll ask ourselves, "Was Andalusia here… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Perhaps pondering words is also a form of seeking justice. If a monologue can invite a chorus, then perhaps it can speak… — Duo Duo Copy Share Image
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