“She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“No artist has painted A true portrait of Lenin Ages to come will complete Lenin's unfinished portrait. Did Poletaev understand the tragic… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way - not those who have made it, who… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory… — John Berger Copy Share Image
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So bashful when I spied her! So pretty ― so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find ― So breathless… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“As the dawn loves the sunlight that must cease Ere dawn again may rise and pass in peace; Must die that she… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“They flee from me that sometime did me seek With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame,… — Thomas Wyatt Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Percy and Books Percy does not like it when I read a book. He puts his face over the top of it,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“I am a Dancer; rehearsing the steps of our unheard song with utmost perfection. Never will you tap your feet consciously. I… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“When you write poetry honestly, and when you read it honestly, then you become an individual and build up a defense against… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“a poem called “The Night Before Doom”: “ ’Twas the night before Doom, / and all through the house, / I had… — David Kushner Copy Share Image
“She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Every poet gets to choose what kind of community he or she serves with the poems, and it's true that there is… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Following Someone is always falling in love with you: men and women, infants and children, octogenarians and adolescents. A tenant of heaven-haven… — Virginia Adair Copy Share Image
“A Tribute to the Kite …Oh such joy what a splendor has never been heard of a string that would lend you… — Sara Loo Copy Share Image
Sometimes the heart wants to speak volumes when only a few, well chosen words are really necessary. Love quotes come from the… — Charyll Gatela Copy Share Image
Dont say anything dont say anything at all! Whats there to say whats there to listen? I know it, you know it… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“Do you believe in love? Do you believe in hearts of craft, and the shake of the holiness of sorrow and in… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Life is crazy, and sometimes it totally veers off course. Seriously, sometimes it flows by nice and smooth and then wham! you… — Ilsa Madden-Mills Copy Share Image
“During this very, very long poem You could have connected Maybe you are connecting Maybe we’re connecting See, I believe that the… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I once asked Myung Mi Kim where gender is located in her work, and she said simply, "it's everywhere," resisting the notion… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“Islamic apologists in the West today commonly assert that verse 9:29 commands warfare only against the Jews and Christians who fought against… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then what of our cries? What can… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
