“So Tristram looked on Iseult face to face and knew not, and she knew not. The last time -- The last that… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves,… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
“This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our… — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
“The storm of revolution,’ as Andre Chenier said, ‘blows out the torch of poetry.’ It is not for some little time that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.… — Jasmine Ann Cooray Copy Share Image
“My stupidity gave its blessing to succouring nature, on her knees before God. What I am (my drunken laughter and happiness) is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Campfire Companions” poem: “What a longing they touched in me! Ah, would that I could lose myself in the wilderness, become a… — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
“For with his little secret that he cannot divulge, the poet buys this power of the word to tell everybody else's dark… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is to be excellent, interesting, authentic, or useful. To be the thing, not the thing that sells the… — Andrew Essex Copy Share Image
“Success at Go requires the tactic of the soldier, the exactness of the mathematician, the imagination of the artist, the inspiration of… — Zhang Yungi Copy Share Image
There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
“TYRONE [ Stares at him -- impressed. ] Yes, there's the makings of a poet in you all right. [ Then protesting… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
“The first “I will” to which I want to direct your attention, is to be found in John’s gospel, sixth chapter and… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“For you she learned to wear a short black slip and red lipstick, how to order a glass of red wine and… — Deborah Garrison Copy Share Image
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“All around the smell of that necro-smoke, that nether-weed. And up and at the hedonist impulse, rejoice, rejoice, in the disconnect my… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“Surely, he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
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If I was an artist, you would be my picture! If I was a poet, you would be my inspiration! If I… — Ali Bassam Copy Share Image
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A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Sonnet: Political Greatness Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame, Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill in arms or arts, Shepherd those herds… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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