“Lee said, “Remember, Mr. Hamilton, I told you I was trying to translate some old Chinese poetry into English? No, don’t worry.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“...another comber of far pleasure followed the first, for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a perfect ending. But over the years Ive learned that some of the best poems dont rhyme, and many great… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“In twenty-four years of proofreading, flocks of words flew into my head through the windows of my soul. Some of them stayed… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way, but I think it must be love. Not the tepid,… — Bettie Sharpe Copy Share Image
“Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.'… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I’ve never been separated from you,” said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“For we were not always burdened by debt, dependent on foreign aid and handouts; in the stories we tell of ourselves we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again,… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“If we are taken over by craving, no matter who or what is before us, all we can see is how it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
“You're confusing desire and love,' she said, watching him. 'They are not the same.' 'I do love you. I feel near to… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The last impression will have been good—one woman rendering homage to a poet and another mopping spilt coffee from the trousers of… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Beauty walks this world. It ages everything. I am far and I am an animal and I am just another I-am poem,… — Peter Gizzi Copy Share Image
I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Percy wakes me (fourteen) Percy wakes me and I am not ready. He has slept all night under the covers. Now he’s… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Lynnette and me were wondering that, if it’s alright with ya, since it’s Thursday night, ya know, ‘thirsty Thursday,’ and we’re kinda… — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever.… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse.… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Poetic Terrorism WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
You can see a clock, but you can't see the time. You can see my face, but you can't see my mind.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Who was this girl alone so late at night in search of a faded cassette illusion to disembowel the clocks of time’s… — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“You keep playing with what broke you, then wonder why you don’t heal. Leave the wound alone, throw away the poison, and… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
