Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I am madly in love with you, just letting you know because I want you to take my hand, hold me, kiss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some days I wake up and all I feel are the fractures in the flesh that covers the only me I've ever… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
“A wind starts to blow, without feelings, A song falls in love, without singing, A life will begin in melodies of the… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point… — David Cage Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes,… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw hundreds of fiddlehead ferns boiling in an enormous pot I realized what an odd person I must… — Maureen Seaton Copy Share Image
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“ Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies & the rare… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse,… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“See, Shel (Silverstein) was possessed with one of the worst singing verses ever heard. Musical appreciation is inherently subjective, and it's normally… — Peter Cooper Copy Share Image
“Pie, in a word, is my passion. Since as far back as I can remember, watching my mom and dad make their… — Ken Haedrich Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“ There are Four of Us I have turned aside from everything, from the whole earthly store. The spirit and guardian of… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Zulus Are No Different With Chinese When It Comes To Fighting. They Love Showing Off Their Skills And Talking Too Much Before… — Lekoma Precious Napo Copy Share Image
It wasn't supposed to be this way. The artists, and the scientists, and the poets...none of them fit in at seventeen. You're… — Mouth McFadden Copy Share Image
When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“If you had swum across the furthest ocean And seen the vastness of infinity Though dread of death might seize you, you'd… — Goethe Copy Share Image
“When people say, 'I've told you fifty times,' They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, 'I've… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Now that Karen has been resurrected, I can travel beyond the black mirror. I can discover who I have lost with the… — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
