“That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
“You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“For what is more foolish than for a man to study nothing else than how to please himself? To make himself the… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that has… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something: there are three sorts of people - thinkers, scribblers, and cattle. It is true, I secretly count… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
“The Romantic journey was usually a solitary one. Although the Romantic poets were closely connected with one another, and some collaborated in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“When I was young and knew Virginia Woolf slightly, I learned something that startled me—that a person may be ultrasensitive and not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“…Maybe it’s the fault of our language but dreams are innocent and pictorial. Then let our dreams speak for us side by… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Hear the verse they be like, "who's lines was that?" I guess I'm a Wayne Brady type of cat. Hear roar with… — D Pryde Copy Share Image
“Theophilus Crowe wrote bad free-verse poetry and played a jimbai drum while sitting on a rock by the ocean. He could play… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry… — Bob Carlisle Copy Share Image
“I had heard that verse many times but in a flash of insight realized that one of the keys I had missed… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. That afternoon, back home again without the cat and without… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“How heavy my mind is, filled with the past. Is there enough room for the world to penetrate? It must go somewhere,… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
“ Upon Westminster Bridge Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“Let's assume for a moment that you, Oh, do not choose God. Does this prevent Him from choosing you? I conclude, from… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you’re fascinated by the contours of my cheeks with skin like bed sheets that hide all of the complexities of what’s… — Lucas Regazzi Copy Share Image
This Poem is Written; By A boy Who Lost His Love: She Gave me lots of Love , I thought thats Enough..!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of… — Shelly Kagan Copy Share Image
