“He swept the ears to the floor with his arm and held the last of his wine in the air. Something for… — Carolyn Forché Copy Share Image
I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
“I could give all to Time except -- except What I myself have held. But why declare The things forbidden that while… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
“The life spills over, some days. She cannot be at rest, Wishes she could explode Like that red tree— The one that… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“The job of the poet—which is somewhat quixotic or Sisyphean—is to express things that one may have sensed or felt but never… — Paul S. Atkins Copy Share Image
A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I came up with a new reason To write your name today I plagiarized each letter From a love note you wrote… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Every poem, for me, begins with a question I don’t have the answer to, and here, in ‘Hypothesis,’ the question is whether… — Paul Tran Copy Share Image
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a… — John Pudney Copy Share Image
“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,… — Sheila Hageman Copy Share Image
“What I'm saying is: go barefoot. Or walk out with a handstand. Live in possibility and in constant proximity to desire. Don't… — Brad Cran Copy Share Image
“I breathe in... the fragrance of love, and moist sand the one his roses left on both my hands I just keep… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you.… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
Pitbull is, like, one of the most incredible humans. He's an amazing guy, and when we first connected on 'Fireball,' he said,… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
“Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“In later years this is the one memory he wishes would go away and not come back. And the reason he cannot… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“from the Prize winning poem - UNBORN in the book Terra Affirmative. "Under the surface / her body is curled, / seed… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“When shall I get to kiss thee?’ I asked. ‘By all means you can forever ask,’ she answered. ‘Your lips ask a… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
“You obsess (but of course you obsess) until the joy is gone from that thing you'd loved, until your fury overwhelms your… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Please welcome Professor Varen Nethers, famous depressed dead poets historian and author of the bestselling books Unlocking your Poe-tential: A Writer's Guide… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Naked solitude with neither gesture nor word. Transparent in the orchard, smooth as oil on the hill. Silent solitude with neither fragrance… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though;… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“ Wisdom When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“We are all poor; but there is a difference between what Mrs. Spark intends by speaking of 'slender means', and what Stevens… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Why do you sit here and cry for me? I am gone and nothing you do will bring me back. But the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in… — Ovid Copy Share Image
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
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