The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which… — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
“[...] The fact is that in order to be loved and to accept love you have to get naked to the very… — Fiphie Copy Share Image
“Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a… — Quraysh Ali Lansana & Georgia A. Popoff Copy Share Image
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets… — James Parton Copy Share Image
“Sound is so important to creative writing. Think of the sounds you hear that you include and the similes you use to… — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Copy Share Image
“Gray waited a full verse before approaching her, prowling around her periphery and coming to rest behind her right shoulder. A few… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“This is your poetry. Join the network to discover new ways of making meaning. Do not fixate on poem, voice, other striated… — Charles Bernstein Copy Share Image
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements,… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
“How, in so short a time, she had passed from intoxication to disgust we will only seek to explain by supposing that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If you know what you're looking for, the illustrations might give you a tip about what is coming in that section. But… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Every word from Kismet’s mouth sounded like poetry spoken with the most fervent passion one could conjure up. I couldn’t understand how… — Jessica Marie Gilliland Copy Share Image
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“If we find poetry in the service station and motel, if we are drawn to the airport or train carriage, it is… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this intake was out-distanced many times, as it always is… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“The assignment was to fall in love. The details were up to you. The second part was to include in the poem… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“I still don't know how to work out a poem. A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving into… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was… — C. C. H. Pounder Copy Share Image
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
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