If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“Interesting. And does Abu have anything else to say?" she asked, leaning closer. Cinnamon. Her breath smelled of cinnamon. He could even… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“A person can only be born in one place.However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“You shall not twist my bones into a star’s shape, nor plant my hair as roots for the dreams of the living;… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“In a sermon I heard recently, the minister claimed that the portrait of God as a storm god (a literary motif that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E.… — Spencer Gordon Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I want words which are scalpel sharp and shiny; poems keen enough to gut a fish and clean it. Poems labelled not… — Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“ No Through Road All in vain, I will cease now My long absorption with the plough, With the tame and the… — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image
If you look at the Directory of American Poets and Writers, you know there are hundreds of poets in New York City.… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
When you awaken in morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circle flight, I am soft stars… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Because it is occasionally possible, just for brief moments, to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
“Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“the bouquet Between me and the world you are a bay, a sail the faithful ends of a rope you are a… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
“Why can’t a musician try to make a cinematic “state of the nation” poem told through dream imagery and pop music? They… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“ Decade When you came, you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there.… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
“The scientists not only sanctified human feelings, but also found an excellent evolutionary reason to do so. After Darwin, biologists began explaining… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid,… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
“poetry! Indeed, verses are the only thing that your letter lacks, Makar Alexievitch. And what tender feelings I can read in it—what… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“Souls of love breathlessly sail Towards our time when hours fail To cope with longing here we are Chasing the speed of… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
