“Tony the Beat Poet says the church is like a wounded animal these days. He says we used to have power and… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air… — Paul Andreas Wunderlich Copy Share Image
In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you… — Esaias Tegner Copy Share Image
“Press’d by the Moon, mute arbitress of tides, While the loud equinox its pow’r combines, The sea no more its swelling surge… — Charlotte Turner Smith Copy Share Image
“but in the city in which I love you, no one comes, no one meets me in the brick clefts; in the… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“There’s a poetry to it, engineer’s poetry…it suggests Haverie —average, you know—certainly you have two lobes, don’t you, symmetrical about the rocket’s… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist… — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
“Autumn comes like a buyer of cloth, her long fingers touching, turning orange, yellow, brown. taking what she wants, stretching the bone… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
“I looked at all the trees and didn’t know what to do. A box made out of leaves. What else was in… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I would like to try to write poetry that would do everything I wanted poems to do, but also be readable by… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone, she'd liked to much to… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Long after midnight the towers and spires of Princeton were visible, with here and there a late-burning light – and suddenly out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet.… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Is ‘vagina’ suitable for use in a sonnet? I don’t suppose so. A famous poet told me, ‘Vagina’s ugly.’ Meaning, of course,… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“Love's night and a lamp Judged our vows: That she would love me ever And I should never leave her. Love's night… — Meleager Copy Share Image
“ I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can’t… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Were the world a just place and given into Poet Eanrin's hands to dictate, he would have written things as they ought… — Anne Elisabeth Stengl Copy Share Image
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“And Unto thine eyes my heart Sendeth old dreams of the spring-time, Yea of wood-ways my rime Found thee and flowers in… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I want to create objects that will stimulate the viewer in ways that I am stimulated by these objects. Now that's an… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“The Temperature is Rising The heartbeat quickens my breath is controlled,my senses are illuminated like a mother to her young. This feeling… — M.I. Ghostwriter Copy Share Image
Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“I go in and slip a note in Jane's locker, which I've gotten in the habit of doing. It's always just a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“POINT TO PONDER: God smiles when I trust him. VERSE TO REMEMBER: “The Lord is pleased with those who worship him and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Writers are not called poets just because they make words rhyme. Poets respond to an inner calling that enables them to add… — John Casperson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
