Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
“We see through a glass, darkly.” The verse surprised him. He hadn’t picked up a Bible in a year, yet he knew… — Janice Cantore Copy Share Image
The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“The heart under your heart is not the one you share so readily so full of pleasantry & tenderness it is a… — Craig Arnold Copy Share Image
When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse;… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
“So I’m reading some poem by Louise . . . something, I forget her last name, but it’s about Hades and the… — Julie James Copy Share Image
“O King, may the world bow to your command; May lips drip with expressions of thanks and salutations; Since it is your… — Audrey Truschke Copy Share Image
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
“You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“She asked me "what is it about these people - the silent ones, the thinking ones, and the brooding ones why do… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“dreamers--which the English call splash; Arabian poets gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase--the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“Partial skinning may be less painful, perhaps delay unpleasantness, how pain set in breasts, back, and belly offers less agony, some reprieve,… — Cathleen Margaret Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“The question of what kind of a thing a text or poem is now becomes a function neither of what the poet… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
“ The Quitter When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“I am becoming the woman I've wanted, grey at the temples, soft body, delighted, cracked up by life with a laugh that's… — Jayne Brown Copy Share Image
“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
“There's a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called "Splittings" that I thought of when I read your… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“The hares of the dawn' -- the ingenuous metaphor of the cowboy poet -- are the little round clouds on the horizon… — Romulo Gallegos Copy Share Image
“Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill.… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“As it turns out, craft is to poetry what invention is to imagination--not antithetical, but needless. The eye does not invent the… — Donald Revell Copy Share Image
A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes though stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“The Poetry of Love We see the world with the eyes of a small child. We visualize the beauty of the world… — Katerina Kostaki Copy Share Image
“It's a poem, for crying out loud! The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at… — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
![“I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written by the director. We found that all these words were beautiful as a poem, but for humans it was more about the emotion or a look than just saying what was there.” quote by Lily Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/lily-collins-1760_beautiful_i-did-a-film-recently-in-the-republic-of_119700.jpg)
