I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L.… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his… — Peter S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
“No one could say the stories were useless for as the tongue clacked five or forty fingers stitched corn was grated from… — Liz Lochhead Copy Share Image
“The Story Is Always There Sometimes you don't need to speak to someone to know how they are feeling. You don't need… — Delma Pryce Copy Share Image
“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Then one evening he reached the last chapter, and then the last page, the last verse. And there it was! That unforgivable… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“Moon, that against the lintel of the west Your forehead lean until the gate be swung, Longing to leave the world and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi is said to have written, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its home, the soul. So the merciful, noisy machine… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death.… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Let me encourage you to start saying positive things about yourself. Maybe you don’t think you’re the most beautiful person on earth,… — Sadie Robertson Copy Share Image
You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“And sometimes if I want To imagine I’m a lamb (Or a whole flock Spreading out all over the hillside So I… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Maria, lonely prostitute on a street of pain, You, at least, hail me and speak to me While a thousand others ignore… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
If you are a person this world will seem full of persons. When you are the being you will not feel bound.… — Mooji Copy Share Image
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
“All literature is an attempt to make life real. As all of us know, even when we don’t act on what we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“He lives forever in his words, in his poems, and in his stories. An inspiration to many writers and poets all around… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“Hometown Human Sonnet Everybody loves Rumi, I learnt his tongue, So I could pick up where he left off. Better than basking… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare… — Traci Lea LaRussa Copy Share Image
I thank whatever gods may be for my undefeatable soul. In the fell grip of circumstance I have not grimaced nor cried… — Samuel Kermis Copy Share Image
“Hafez seemed to have the effect of unifying the Iranian people. His poems epitomised the Iranian mindset; passionate and opinionated but laced… — Lois Pryce Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
“To whom shall I offer this book, young and sprightly, Neat, polished, wide-margined, and finished politely? To you, my Cornelius, whose learning… — Gaius Valerius Catullus Copy Share Image
When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
![“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude. You see that I am extremely sentimental. Had you suspected that?” quote by Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/378/vita-sackville-west-4366_letters_you-angel-you-have-written-please-in-all_452775.jpg)
