Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
“A writer tears open their soul for you We lay bare our fears and woes for you We pour our heart onto… — Theresa Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, he wanted some credit for it. He wanted someone to thank him for not crapping on the institution of love. He… — Amity Gaige Copy Share Image
“for where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where love and death are… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Shelby looked over to see Andrew silently mouthing syllables to himself, as if he were part of an ecstatic rite. He grinned… — Bailey Cunningham Copy Share Image
If you want to change people by talking about God, then there is only one way: instead of teaching God, you must… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“if i or anybody don't know where it her his my next meal's coming from i say to hell with that that… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“A rat, Evie,” she murmured. “A rat on my table . . . gnaws the threads . . . the salamander stares… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“Kao oko mrtvaca jednog sjaje oko našeg vrta bednog, fenjeri. Da l' noć na tebe svile prospe? Jesi li se digla među… — Miloš Crnjanski Copy Share Image
“i was really into communal living and we were all / such free spirits, crossing the country we were / nomads and… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
“Hamlet promised himself he’d throw down afterward, but I think perhaps when he said, “From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody,… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“I shall have twenty cats and talk to them all," she said, picking up the volume of poetry. "My cats and I… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned enough to really still believe that the poem is an object to be memorized, venerated... I still believe in that… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
“The experience of mankind on the earth is always changing as man develops and has to deal with new combinations of elements;… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“Imagination is not, as some poets have thought, simply synonymous with good. It may be either good or evil. As long as… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example,'The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.' The… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
“As time passed, I felt especially grateful to my family and friends who continued to check in and show up. On the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“But in her web she still delights To weave the mirror’s magic sights, For often thro’ the silent nights A funeral, with… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text,… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“How they are all about, these gentlemen In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced, Like night around their order's star and gem And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The Soviet performers felt that every note had to be strictly controlled. They had excellent training, but the result lacked freshness and… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“Many authors, as Hanck in particular had noted, were basically little people, spiritually shriveled, atrophied and care-worn personalities. Petty. Vulnerable and frightened.… — Klas Ostergren Copy Share Image
“In our era, it is because poetry is no longer practiced that some people can rediscover it in argot, in which the… — Alice Becker-Ho Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am a poet writing about pain I am a person recovering & trying to gain. I am your daughter who is… — Brittany Snyder Copy Share Image
I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
![“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all…” quote by John Constable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f10/john-constable-11301_academy_my-picture-a-boat-passing-a-lock-1823-6_1324899.jpg)
![“[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.” quote by Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b8/milan-kundera-120_beauty_kafka-transformed-the-profoundly-antipoe_2458536.jpg)
