“Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Try to be thoughtful, don't make the poor man say it; see how human he is, he has children of his own,… — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno Copy Share Image
“God must be a season, grandma said, looking out at the blizzard drowning her garden. My footsteps on the sidewalk were the… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
“Just wanted to know how you're feeling, As I sit here and think of your progress, It takes a lot of time,… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“Ask a man of mere science, what is the truth of a flower: he will pull it to pieces, show you its… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It may happen once or perhaps several times during your lifetime, but you'll meet a 'soulmate'. The bond will be instantaneous. They'll… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“The novels, travel books and poems I read had a particular smell. The smell of cellars. An almost spicy smell, a mixture… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?… — Samuel Grant Oliphant Copy Share Image
I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“You are not going to burn out, you're just beginning. You have an entire galaxy of stars burning fiercely inside of you… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret… — Richard Realf Copy Share Image
“With slouch and swing around the ring We trod the Fools’ Parade! We did not care: we knew we were The Devils’… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wanted to pay homage to someone who was such an important literary figure in my life. I think Langston Hughes would… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“sometimes paraphrase our own Scriptures. For example, the verse above is modeled on Galatians 3:28, which says, “There is no longer Jew… — Kristen Stieffel Copy Share Image
“In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Isn't it odd that pastors, who are responsible for interpreting the Scriptures, so much of which come in the form of poetry… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Someday I will stop being young and wanting stupid tattoos. There are 7 people in my house. We each have different genders.… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
“Artists are makers, not just mouthers of slippery discourse. Language, the poets' medium, should not be privileged over the protean materials of… — Camile Pagli Copy Share Image
“We must therefore entertain the hypothesis that there is an important connection between being 'dialectical' and dreaming, just as there is between… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“The result was a sort of condensed literature, an essence of nutriment, a sublimate of art. It was a device which Mallarmé… — K.J. Huysmans Copy Share Image
“Now listen to me, please: On a winter day, when you were a lycée student, it was snowing, and you were lost… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“There were so many different moods and impressions that he wished to express in verse. He felt them within him. He tried… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
