My own, purely personal view is that reading, study, poetry, and scientific experiment might be more rewarding than a job or children,… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm; But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm. "How often already you've had… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
“Consciously or unconsciously, I may have done many things that were un-true, but I have never uttered anything false in my poetry… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. That's all… — Brent weeks Copy Share Image
In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
“But will anyone again look at that tree, read that poem, love a dog in quite my way? I am a particular… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“ I KNEW IT WAS OVER when tonight you couldn't make the phone ring when you used to make the sun rise… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“ She Was A Phantom of Delight She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I find it odd that, in real life people think I am funny but no one ever suspects that on the page!… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“The rat will adapt to most any landscape. The beaver will gnaw and slap and drag the landscape to fit her needs.… — Jarod K. Anderson Copy Share Image
“What’s there to find in a broken heart if not assembled pieces of love for a pristine start What’s there to see… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“what if you get most of what the eye sees? what if love came in seeds? what if we plant them and… — Youns Hussein Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think that 'Prayers' is a really interesting one because we wrote it well before the border crisis was happening, and in… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important?… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
“Ky gives me three gifts for my birthday. A poem, a kiss and the hopeless, beautiful belief that things might work. When… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I always knew you In your mothers arms I have called your name I have an idea Placed in your mind To… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“The actor can learn from the painter about the emotive power of facial expressions. The painter from the designer, about the potential… — Frank Chimero Copy Share Image
“You need me like ice needs the mountain On which it breeds. Like print needs the page. You move in me like… — Monica Ferrell Copy Share Image
My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“That was the poet’s lesson, I presume. In a month or so from now, when I’d revisit Rome, being here tonight with… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense.… — Dan Quisenberry Copy Share Image
“When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“If someone knocks on your door, my friend, and something in your blood beats and rests not and water in its stem,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
To love is the most Creative way to spend time But what if your alone with the past lies and lesson ful… — Marcus Bernard Copy Share Image
At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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