I can't picture myself starting out aiming to do anything or having much of an agenda.I think in writing a poem, I'm… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Consider in his spiritual martyr this being who lies with closed eyes, dislocated like the victim of a brutal accident who no… — Anna de Noailles Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It will be two o' clock in the morning your sitting in your bed, eyes wide open, and everyone's asleep. All of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You whom my body longs for, where are you? In the stars, in the river, over the rainbow? Perhaps you hide in… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Poetry has never been written with the intention of making young people irritated, bored, anxious or humiliated, and yet the consequence of… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
JUST SAY I LOVE YOU When I Am Glad, You Are In My Smile, When I Am Sad, You Are In My… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They construct billboards out in the sea, painted allegories adorn their facades, hawking sex and sentiment to the opulent, the fortunate of… — Holly Walrath Copy Share Image
“I always get a little bit irritated when people talk about 'bringing poetry to the people' especially those poet - performers who… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Beneath our radiant Southern Cross We'll toil with hearts and hands To make this Commonwealth of ours Renown of all the lands… — Derek Smith Copy Share Image
Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ is proof of God’s grace gift; he redeemed the glory of God in human life; mankind condemned is now mankind… — François Du Toit Copy Share Image
“We were nobodies, two young lit. students chatting away in a rickety old house in a small town at the edge of… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
With a heart of gold, and a look so nice, I met a girl who had angel eyes. Her smile so precious… — Quenecia Dean (Queen Copy Share Image
“I wanted him to be a poet. I wanted him to adventure out into the world and learn its ways, not losing… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“if the rain you left behind for me to deal with taught me anything in this life, it would be that after… — Hannah Cao Copy Share Image
Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“How blest am I in this discovering thee! To enter in these bonds is to be free; Then where my hand is… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“A lot is being said today about the influence that the myths and images of women have on all of us who… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“We live in a modern society. Husbands and wives don't grow on trees, like in the old days. So where does one… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“The letters, the fading. The labyrinth, the cake. The four hundred brackish lakes of the brain. She searches for the music, but… — Laura Kasischke Copy Share Image
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
“I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and… — Santa Teresa de Jesús Copy Share Image
“She said, “‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…’” She parted the curtains, looked out… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“That the nobility of Man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself the conquerer of matter,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Peg came over with dinner tonight and told me about this dumb schmaltzy poem she heard someone read at an AA meeting.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of… — James Welch Copy Share Image
Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
