How would you paint me? If you were a artist how would you paint me? With deep solid strokes or your brush… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
“There was a poem, she said, by Beckett that he had written twice, once in French and once in English, as if… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“She was sunshine on a rainy day, a rainbow against gray clouds, hope in a Catholic school uniform. She was why poetry… — S.L. Scott Copy Share Image
I keep a journal for my future wife. I jot down love letters, poems, etc. I write as if she's a real… — Ben Copy Share Image
“Submerged Suburbia by Stewart Stafford Fell out of bed, dragging my soul, Looked out the old goldfish bowl, To see suburbia was… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“ Today Today is the day that good things come your way, and then bad things to suck all the fun from… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“To speak again of solitude, it becomes ever clearer that in truth there is nothing we can choose or avoid. We are… — Anita Barrows Copy Share Image
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“I need to climb the orange trees in Yaffa City, and let the orange branches hold me, and write poetry “كم أتمنى أن أتسلق أشجار برتقال يافا ، و سأسمح لبرتقالة تلفها رائحة حكايات جدتي وتسكنها طفولتي أن تحملني كي أكتب الشعر٠” — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry,… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
“…The heavens could not bear my debt And wrote me as a madman in my fate. But lovers bled their hearts And… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered that some ancient writer on poetry had… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“But all of what Jesus says in this chapter should be read in light of the opening few verses: “Do whatever they… — David Desilva Copy Share Image
“Blue eyes. No, not just blue, blue like glacial waters, like romantic poems, like heavens and moonstones. Cornflower blue. And- Blue like… — Dani Alexander Copy Share Image
“So what if the heartaches you wrote last year isn't what you're feeling today. it may be exactly what the person in… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“ You have a poem called “Bad Theology.” What would you call a bad theology? I guess any theology that presumes to… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
“Once I had thought chiefly of the man of letters, the traveler, the poet, the lover; none of that had faded, to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other… — Muslih Al-Din Mushrif Ibn Abd Allah Al Saadi 1184 1283 Copy Share Image
“We arrived and the miracle happened. It was the sea and the wind in the bells. We came from far, from years… — José Manuel Cardona Copy Share Image
I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
