“It didn’t disturb the Sumerians that their script was ill-suited for writing poetry. They didn’t invent it in order to copy spoken… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears… — Renee Dixon Copy Share Image
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction,… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
“A dragon grows in leaps and bounds, Like troubles mounting by the pound. Its stature heightens day to day, Imposing dread and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code, that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost at Eighty" I think there are poems greater and stranger than any I have known. I would like to find… — Peter Boyle Copy Share Image
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry;… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I am a poet writing about my pain. I am person recovering and trying to gain. I am your daughter who is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“I don't know you, But I love you, Just as God loves me and you. The sun and the moon are opposing… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
“Jen's Mum Will Write Jen's mum writes advertising copy. She specializes in white goods: washing machines, dryers, fridges, freezers, dishwashers. She hates… — Margaret Wild Copy Share Image
“There are productive spirits who require many and great destinies or experience in order to produce a small work. There is a… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prison Moon Four a.m. work duty and I begin my solitary trudge from outer compound to main building. A shivering guard, chilled… — Jorge Antonio Renaud Copy Share Image
I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick… — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
R&b, poetry, I'd like to do everything. But I'm an entertainer and entertaining is not just music. I can do comedy; I'm… — Keak da Sneak Copy Share Image
Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
“Pablo Neruda's poems tramped through the mud [with the fieldworker]...knocked at the doors of mansions...sat at the table of the baker...The shopkeeper… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
“The move away from writing poetry was gradual. It was a gentle slope into a muddy pond; it was a collection of… — Angela Doll Carlson Copy Share Image
![“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error…” quote by Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9c/alain-de-botton-221_anxiety_l-ife-is-a-phenomenon-in-need-of-critici_1775630.jpg)
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