Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion.… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I'm around a lot of people all the time and as much as I seem social, I'm really an introvert and I… — Doechii Copy Share Image
“Do you know what people do when they read poetry? They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s… — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
“Even the common things he carried with him—the food and the brandy and the loaded pistol—took on exactly that concrete and material… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Driving home from work, our white and yellow plates will clog the streets; at the checkpoints, cars will stretch far into the… — Dalia Taha Copy Share Image
Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“To Malcolm X, thank you for teaching us the kind of self-love that can never be taken away, To Malcolm X, thank… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... In life after life, in age after age, forever.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“I'm not afraid of anything anymore. I've found out Ghosts don't hide under my bed or in my closets either. They exist… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Spring is like a perhaps hand Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people… — E. E. Cummings Copy Share Image
I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“O come all ye faithful..." I began. "Joyful and triumphant..." Liam joined in. We made it through the first three words of… — Tammy Blackwell Copy Share Image
“They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper’s Bluff, they recited… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Our Beasts and our Thieves and our Chattels Have weight for good or for ill; But the Poor are only His image,… — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
“More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Rid of the world’s injustice, and his pain, He rests at last beneath God’s veil of blue: Taken from life when life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“Love is prayerfulness groping toward godliness. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration:… — Osho Copy Share Image
“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits; A Poets pen all scorn I should… — Susan L. Rattiner Copy Share Image
“Medieval Persia also produced a long and beautiful poem satirizing the claims and practices of religion. Though Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) is best… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Your little sister Has tossed her Untied hair forward Like a living veil, Like a fragrant hedge, And peers, with such eyes!… — Hugo von Hoffmannstahl Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off… — Andrea Kayne Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Some 2,600 years ago the ancient Greek poet Pindar wrote, “Become who you are by learning who you are.” What he meant… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name,… — Jonas Hallgrimsson Copy Share Image
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
