One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists,… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
“the second verse, Marley tells of the role of wisdom in salvation: Which man can save his brother’s soul? Oh man, it’s… — Dean MacNeil Copy Share Image
“We met at the blue lagoon on the even of a full moon. Dancing wild like those gypsy girls, with their messy… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Spring and Fall” …cannot be said to be about depression - but of course, to someone who is depressed, everything is about… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays,… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“this thing upon me crawling like a snake, terrifying my love of commonness, some call Art some call Poetry; it’s not death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The dark side of the butterflies: Another secret of the shadows The heart of the universe It's a summer afternoon. Summer's afternoon!… — Daniel Wamba Copy Share Image
“There were times when I was blown away by the virgin beauty of the land. Kind of like that guy who lost… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor.… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It nods and curtseys and recovers When the wind blows above, The nettle on the graves of lovers That hanged themselves for… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. And you teach your sons and… — Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“All my contemporaries— hundred-and-fivers or convicts— will tell you how we lived in barely sentient fear, raising children for the executioner, prison,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive… — Ken Tucker Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Touching my heart what was the gesture you gave? I felt the season has changed and the world felt beautiful! I will… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“The goal is not to answer these questions. The goal is to be present to them with all that we are. In… — Adam Bucko Copy Share Image
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part… — Maurice Hayes Copy Share Image
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night"… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath- no: as one presses it against a wound out of which the whole of life,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“I spent the rest of that day brainstorming. How do you catch a very old, very alert tiger by surprise? Use his… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I've been trying to come to terms with what I am and what I do and what I believe in. And I… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“What are my options?" "You could read obscure poetry while I play the triangle, I suppose. Or we can smother ourselves in… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
