It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“Title: Blue Light Lounge Sutra For The Performance Poets At Harold Park Hotel the need gotta be so deep words can't answer… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What has preceded in verses 1–37 is designed not to mitigate the harsh circumstances of verses 38–45 but to be a foil… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A friend who teaches at a top university once asked her class to memorize thirty lines of the eighteenth-century poet Alexander Pope.… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well… — Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Is this where the light faded out forever? Where the cat was finally killed by caught tongue? Where hand no longer wandered… — Mellon Black Copy Share Image
In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“I know this life isn’t fair. I know that beauty will fade and hard times will grip our hearts and darkness will… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“I used to be a gibber-poet. . . . assemblages of appropriated text from cereal box side panels. I’d spell every third… — James W. Blinn Copy Share Image
“What else is a poem about? The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an… — Garret Freymann-Weyr Copy Share Image
“Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
“Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.… — JoAnn Durgin Copy Share Image
“I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy.… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“You invented me. There is no such earthly being, Such an earthly being there could never be. A doctor cannot cure, a… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I hadn't published a book of poetry in over a decade because I've been very ill. As I got better and started… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
“There'll be the lightning bugs with their Morse code display, And shooting stars and constellations to befriend; The dragonflies will keep us… — Mariecor Ruediger Copy Share Image
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance.… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
“Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among the working classes. Now and again… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Mistaken Memories are all that I have to anchor me, Yet they’re often what leaves me unhinged, Falling from that could I… — Jenn Waterman Copy Share Image
“Looking up occasionally to see rare cars crossing the high bridge and wondering what they'd see on this drear foggy night if… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest Roman poets was Ovid, an older contemporary of Jesus (his dates: 43 BCE–17 CE). His most famous work… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously)… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“So—I went on, on my own—deeper and deeper into the silent Tunnel of the Ride—not so sure of where I was and… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Writing the poems, I came to think that regarding is a form of love, but the regarding is not necessarily accurate. In… — Joy Katz Copy Share Image
A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
