“Adrijene, nemoj da se duriš! Vrati se! U redu grešila sam duge godine nisam se vracala kuci, ali sam ti uvek krila… — Jacques Prévert Copy Share Image
“Tumi Jónsen has now started to tell the Icelandic sagas in a style that consists principally of casting doubt on the story… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
I really like Pat Parker. I really like Audre Lorde. I read a lot of the Beats when I was younger, so… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
I had, never been, A writer. My words, My thoughts, My feelings, Had always flowed, From my lips. And yet now, They… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid.… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold! Already you see I have escaped from you. For it is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The Bible isn’t really at all good at being an instruction manual. It’s good at leading us into a tangle of wild… — Jana Riess Copy Share Image
I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I should have moved on, but I loved it here. I felt like a Romantic poet or Thoreau by his pond. I… — Alli Dyer Copy Share Image
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
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“It wasn’t beautiful. A Winter wedding is a union of elation and depression, red velvet blankets in a cheap motel room stained… — Lucas Regazzi Copy Share Image
We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
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It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably,… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“On August 18, 1941, Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr. of the Royal Canadian Air Force took a new airplane, the Spitfire Mk… — Ryan W. Quinn Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
“What exactly is the new verse movement? The New Verse Movement of the 1910's was to make poetry relevant again by immersing… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Do Not Wait For Me (By Mimi Mata) Do not wait for me... My craving sent me elsewhere I yearn for some… — Mimi Mata (Aspiring Writer Copy Share Image
“In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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“That men, who might have tower'd in the van Of all the congregated world, to fan And winnow from the coming step… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Poetry has always been this completely alien art to me. I am the sort of bloke who, when he gets into things,… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
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“ When We Two Parted When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
“People say I must be cold–natured—sexless—on account of it. But I won’t have it! Some of the most passionately erotic poets have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
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