“The world, once flat to his eyes, now bristled with edges and textures. He saw the tiny grooves of petals and leaves,… — Remy Wilkins Copy Share Image
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“English teaching at school is, unfortunately, obsessed with what a poet thought, as though that were of any interest to anyone. Rather… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“How I'm rushing through this! How much each sentence in this brief story contains. "The stars are made of the same atoms… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I call myself a grasshopper. I paint, I write poetry, and I'm in a band. When it comes to movies and TV,… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
“(...) like he left a piece of himself with you and you are terrified he is coming back for it. Or he… — Brenna Twohy Copy Share Image
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“good haiku are full of overtones. The elusiveness that is one of their chief charms comes, not from haziness, but from the… — Harold G. Henderson Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“There is no halftruth in the Hebrew emet. We cannot take one moment, one feeling, or one perspective and call that the… — Eric H.F. Law Copy Share Image
“Marriages performed within,' read the sign next to the coffeehouse door, underneath in small letters a verse that combined warning with a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’, Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“i want to love you with simple, like a bare singular matchstick. one stroke to ignite with no words spoken by the… — zuky rose leigh Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Students can't leave their lives at the door when they come to school. They bring with them whatever is going on at… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
“The poem begins, “About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position; how… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Brown and Dilke walked with me and back from the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute but a disquisition, with Dilke… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“I reached for the notebook which was always close by. All thoughts of composing epic poems of Greek heroes had left me.… — Nancy Moser Copy Share Image
“I was imagining the most bizarre things befalling you.” “Did they include a six-hundred-pound ice bear and a pirate poet?” “No…” “Then… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
A Heart Touching Poem By A Solider.. . . If I Die In A War Zone, Box Me Up N Send Me… — Ritzy Copy Share Image
“WINTER'S GHOST: Autumn moon incautious in the dark river Winter’s ghost walks with a covered face and silver bones wait in all… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously?' he said, pushing the lift… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
If I were a poet, I would write you a love poem a day. If I were a singer, I would sing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He is a Londoner, too, in his writings. In his familiar letters he displays a rambling urban vivacity, a tendency to to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy whenit departs too far from the dance;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films,… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
“Poetry lets me pour out my various emotions even the suppressed ones we didn't know exist inside us' til the moment you… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
Theres a verse thats meant a lot to me ever since I was in my early 20s. 2 Timothy 2:8, Paul told… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
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