“Ars Poetica To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“And when I say I love you, I mean that you can show me your darkest fire your soul can produce, and… — Belle Townsend Copy Share Image
“He has given Caspar flowers, has given him soft toys (however ridiculous that might be as a gesture.) Has written real actual… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end.… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“For me the poem and the poetry open mic isn’t about competition and it never will be. Honestly? It's wrong. The open… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Mental life consists, according to the textbooks, of thought and feeling, according to the poets, of addressing an inner voice (or voices),… — Miroslav Holub Copy Share Image
There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind: I don't need no pain. I'm just gonna have another drink. Closed eyes see darkness, patterns of thoughts in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“Poets loved the full moon; they wrote thousands of poems about it, but it was the new moon that Veronika loved best… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“To open the wound To write in its blood―with its blood means your realisation through her― the feel of her absence, like… — Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Copy Share Image
“The Trifler Death's the lover that I'd be taking; Wild and fickle and fierce is he. Small's his care if my heart… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
“where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poetry in the Universe itself — surely… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instead of tense. And I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray… — Wolfgang Borchert Copy Share Image
“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry. Then he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“When I was small my mother tried to teach me the colors. "Blue," she said, pointing to the sky. And "blue" again,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that hurts in my heart it's like the roots of a tree being ripped away yeah we're being… — Brett Teuke Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
“I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To hold her, to keep her -- just as she was -- with her cruelty, with her vulgarity, with her blinding blue… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“And the poet says that by starlight You come seeking, in the night, the flowers that you picked And that he has… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
