“Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart." "And on your worst days?" she had… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I spent one more hour in bed thinking about my dead feather who'd been shot responding to a routine domestic disturbance call… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“That is the way Emerson said it. But here is the way a poet -the late Douglas Mallochsaid it: If you can't… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Rincewind picked up a spare paper and read it. It was headed: Examination for the post of Assistant Night-Soil Operative for the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t sure whether he was a grad student, poet, actor, stripper, or brilliant combination of all those things. But the man… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“The stars stare back In that deep, Soul-shattering blackness And from the depths of existence Comes a cruel, icy wind Raising the… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“In the old days a poet once said" In the old days a poet once said our nation is destroyed yet the… — Ko Un Copy Share Image
“There is a monstrous garden in the sky Nightly they sow it fresh. Nightly it springs, Luridly splendid, towards the moon on… — Margery Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, though, he went on binges. He would sneak into bookstores or libraries, lurk around the racks where the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Beauty can break a heart and make it think about something more spiritual than the mindless routine we go through day after… — Ian Morgan Cron Copy Share Image
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“She slid a slim volume of poetry off the shelf and returned to her chair, swishing her rather unnattractive skirts before she… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“And then a man of forty or so, with a French accent, asked, "How do you achieve the presence of mind to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Besides, it’s not a favor,” Simon added, “it’s a poetry slam around the block from your house. It’s not like I’m inviting… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to… — Matsuo Bashō Copy Share Image
“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“Art according to art! Love according to love! This is taking the salt away from Heaven. Do you think Our Savior tries… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes,… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“We are not from here, my dear. So: Let the flames take over our bodies, ‘cause I wanna merely burn with you.… — Michael Biondi Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The politics of language and the politics of writing really got to me. I've heard this phrase more than once now: this… — Truong Tran Copy Share Image
Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
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