In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
“His head propped on a stack of poetry books he’d brought from the library. Almost all of them had been inscribed on… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“I’ve brought this city’s dust and smoke home and washed them with my face and clothes, I’ve picked up its raucous sounds… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The shoemaker [Johann Ludwig] W[eidmann, 6th-GGF]. has been having some serious scruples about some verses of Holy Scripture, about which I set… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
“I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“Lyric," it said. "Melodic. Suitable for singing. A lyric poem. Of the lyre." That didn't seem to make much sense in regards… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“MAY 17 LET GOD TAKE CONTROL Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.… — Alan Robertson Copy Share Image
Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“When the poets call the directions or 'rulings' of Jahweh 'true' they are expressing the assurance that these, and not those others,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Anyway, my point is that guys like Flec have a weakness, almost a kind of addiction, for the mystical, as opposed to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful.… — Carl Sagan as Ellie Arroway Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“A black boy brought Wilson's gin and he sipped it very slowly because he had nothing else to do except to return… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
![“The shoemaker [Johann Ludwig] W[eidmann, 6th-GGF]. has been having some serious scruples about some verses of Holy Scripture, about which I set him right today by reminding him that he should first profit from the easy and clear verses of Holy Scripture and then gradually he will learn to…” quote by Johann Martin Boltzius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c80/johann-martin-boltzius-22940_learning_the-shoemaker-johann-ludwig-w-eidmann-6t_3106477.jpg)
![“[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful...I had no idea. I had no idea.” quote by Carl Sagan as Ellie Arroway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/carl-sagan-as-ellie-arroway-95_encounter_an-encounter-in-space-some-celestial-eve_2347837.jpg)
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