“I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end, But I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Or there were the poets and thinkers. Suppose he had had that passion, and had gone to Sir William Bradshaw, a great… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“The things that will be spoken here come from the images and things that I see as well as hear. These object… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
“Time machine to the past Step back a few years Old feelings, like Lazarus Suddenly reappear. It's your song on the radio… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“ A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me… — Edgar Allen Poe Copy Share Image
“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall.… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
Mike is the craziest person. He's scattered; he's all over the place. When you hold him down and tell him, 'This is… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
“When catastrophe strikes compassion and love unite. A storm can't break the spirit of love. A storm may crack your windows, tear… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I make work that is many things at once: poems that are prose, that are pictures, that are poem and picture. Actions… — Jen Besemer Copy Share Image
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“You have never been as beautiful as you will be through our eyes. You will have never known that the hard edge… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“Recently, a judge of the prestigious 2014 British Forward Prize for Poetry was moved to observe that “there is an awful lot… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
“I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“Jane,' she said, climbing down from the chair. 'Remember last year when I built that model wind tower for you and you… — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Testifying against my abuser is not about a trial or about revenge This is a woman learning that to wear the burden… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
There's a Bible verse that says if you believe, you will be in the presence of the Lord in the blink of… — Michael Waltrip Copy Share Image
“Tagore claims that the first time he experienced the thrill of poetry was when he encountered the children’s rhyme ‘Jal pare/pata nare’… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
Yo, this is my story, this is my song, And to them rudypoots don't attempt to try this at home, It's just… — Outkast Copy Share Image
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
“Horace Greeley cautioned one upstate hopeful: “You do not realize how little the mere talent of writing well has to do with… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is." And what is it?" asked Lucy fearfully, expecting… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly.Cling to them, survey them… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“In one of the verses of Lal Ded, or Lalla, a fourteenth-century mystic from Kashmir, Lalla says: “At the end of a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Actually, this is a poem my father once showed me, a long time ago. It has been bastardized many times, in many… — James Patrick Kinney Copy Share Image
I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian… — Duncan Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
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