Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“So many requests, always, from a lover! None when they fall out of love. I'm glad the water does not move under… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“You don’t say much,” Mr. Weber muses. “But when you do . . . you are a poet.” I shake my head. “I’m a baker.”… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“The Blue Bird from The Last Night of the Earth Poems there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I feel that, every day, God molds me into someone that He wants me to be. So if that means just, like,… — Laurie Hernandez Copy Share Image
“I can see prose has taken an unfortunate turn toward utility in the past century,” he said with obvious regret. “I’m afraid… — D. Nathan Hilliard Copy Share Image
I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
“He pulled me close and said, "Katie, don't leave me, you're my breath, I refuse to live without you." It was the… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I’m happy. But some beauty is nonesuch - The gently sloping path across the wood, The wretched bridge that’s just a little… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“Shut lips, sleeping faces, Every stopped machine, The dumb and littered places Where crowds have been:. All silences rejoice, Weep (loudly or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“New clothes left Sylvia reeling with happiness. For Sylvia, a shopping list was a poem. She always shopped alone - it suited… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“from "After the Fall" When Kennedy dropped from the sky To honor the poet Frost, ... So MacLeish spoke.."Not To mention Robert… — Alan W. Powers Copy Share Image
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
“Disasterology The Badger is the thirteenth astrological sign. My sign. The one the other signs evicted: unanimously. So what? ! Think I… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“In my mind's eye I can still see the first night flight I made in Argentina. It was pitch-dark. Yet in the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“i deem her insecurities insufferable turn-offs as if the male standard for sexiness is a gospel that demands she stop starving herself… — Britt Greifeld Copy Share Image
“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember. We’re all just… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the greatest thing we can ask ourselves is “Why not me?” Anyone who has ever accomplished anything worth while has either… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“…The heart, the body and the soul By her thought was consumed whole; The only one left untouched Was I alone, and… — Amir Khusrow Dehlavi Copy Share Image
“Ni jedan javni trg Imenom moga oca nikad se neće zvati Ni jedan javni trg, ja to znam, on je samo Parkete… — Luko Paljetak Copy Share Image
The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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