“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) might take some pleasure of my pain;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“This is the legend of Cassius Clay, The most beautiful fighter in the world today. He talks a great deal, and brags… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that… — Yuna Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“What does it all mean, poet? Well, Your brains beat into rhythm, you tell What we felt only; you expressed You hold… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The unspoken hurts. From everyone hidden corner it lurks. Seeking out its pray. We all want to run away. In the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always ask any of the artists that open up if they know 'Family Tradition', since that's my last song in the… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
“The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Tom , the third son, was most like his father. He was born in fury and he lived in lightning.Tom came headlong… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“TIMMS: I don't see how we can understand it. Most of the stuff poetry's about hasn't happened to us yet. HECTOR: But… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“THIS IS WHY He will never be given to wonder much if he was the mouth for some cruel force that said… — Michael Ryan Copy Share Image
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Sonnet V I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place patiently the river asks for its… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
So many colours, pictures and poetry could describe your love; but now that Im about to tell you how true, pure and… — Bel Claveria Carig Martinez Copy Share Image
In terms of poetry, I worry about being far from the voice of my childhood, the rhythms of Ulster speech, and the… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“And tell me everything, tell chain by chain, and link by link, and step by step; sharpen the knives you kept hidden… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
“PART 2 I felt doomed to death, But in a flash, Before I could reduce my thoughts To an emotion, I felt… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Not a scar just psychological, But as material as roaches, Street corners and billy clubs. A wound reopened systematically, Inflicted with economic… — Cabrini Gulag Copy Share Image
“Alone Again" I think of each of them living somewhere else sitting somewhere else standing somewhere else sleeping somewhere else or maybe… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
“It took 3.8 billion years of triumphant evolution, remarkable collision, an unbelievable confluence made by sheer will and influence of this infinite… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
