“When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“listen girl,’ Medea says, ‘you are not the first person in the world to suffer from a broken heart. but i will… — Salma Deera Copy Share Image
“MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“THE BEAUTY Poetry is beautiful, in my eyes. Its words are aged with wisdom. A poets tears burn words, to vanish sighs,… — Angela Khristin Brown Copy Share Image
“The Poet" The riches of the poet are equal to his poetry His power is his left hand It is idle weak… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“And her heart sprang in Iseult, and she drew With all her spirit and life the sunrise through And through her lips… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
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“As Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) pointed out, twilight 'is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the… — Jessica Kerwin Jenkins Copy Share Image
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
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“Suddenly, I was stopped by a quiet song . . Somebody stood, swaying slowly on the road, In the darkest shadow by… — Oleh Lysheha Copy Share Image
The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse,… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
“The grandeur of the poem is that Job pleads his cause with God against all the remonstrance of religious authority, recognizing no… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker;… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It begins like a strange gnawing in your heart. It then… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The Pronce loved The Lady, The Lady loved The Pronce. They were together forever, life and death, reality or fantasy. They stomped… — Jasmine Laura Copy Share Image
“…The truth: dreaming is lonely the further away the closer to this one time No one has held me for so long… — Angkarn Chanthathip Copy Share Image
“STAY AN ORIGINAL WORK OF ART In this short lifetime, Why not be -- True to your own voice, Your own story,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We dance, we dance. You hold the thread of my soul. You spin, you spin. And you unravel the part from the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Don’t bring confusion to my table. Bring flowers. Bring books. Bring cakes. But leave your indecisiveness behind. My heart is not up… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I wonder-Did I peek through the veil impatiently, while you slowly forged the bonds that brought me to mortality? And do you… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“She wanted him. Not in the sweet way of poetry, though there was that music in the symmetry of his body, in… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“(W)hy is poetry wholly an elderly taste? When I was twenty I could not for the life of me read Shakespeare for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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“when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric” I know what he meant I know what he wanted: to be completely alive… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I saw a sadness shivering in his eyes that night. They resemble a heart flat-lining. I wanted to ask him what put… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
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