“He is no mean poet, and his verse can rouse or persuade even if his logic fail to convince. His message is… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was took a while to recover from. But after ripping… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
“Does poetry - or language or philosophy or music or architecture, even that of our temples - really need to dance to… — Maria Rosa Menocal Copy Share Image
I always had, you know, in the book of Hebrews, I think it's chapter 11, verse 1, where it says, "Now faith… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
“It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is… — Aase Berg Copy Share Image
You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it: The moon is within me, and so is the… — Kabir Copy Share Image
“He was the hunter of my soul, lying in wait - silently and motionless. Coaxing me out of hiding, Enticing me with… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
[Rihanna] I know you've been hurt by someone else I can tell by the way you carry yourself. If you let me,… — Drake Copy Share Image
An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“Did you finish yours, Kota?" "Working on it now, Actually." "How's it going?" He sat up, turning in his chair and holding… — C.L. Stone Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between the actual… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Through the darkest hours of the night and through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry sky and beyond galaxies… — Lee Argus Copy Share Image
I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Love Untamed, unbridled, unfair Timeless, ageless, never painless Selfish, selfless, righteous n’ wicked Lingers on and on It weeps; it laughs, it… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
I had a very humane, what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova would probably have called 'vegetarian,' experience of migration. It involved… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Contrasts The windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windows Shine The precious stones of… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“This is freedom. This is the face of faith, nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I’d say that most of these [poems in Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP] are just straightforward enough, but not entirely… — Sage Cohen Copy Share Image
The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
![“[Rihanna] I know you've been hurt by someone else I can tell by the way you carry yourself. If you let me, here's what I'll do I'll take care of you (I'll take, I'll take, I'll take) I've loved and I've lost. [Drake: verse 1] I've asked about you and they've told me things but my mind didn't…” quote by Drake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/drake-44_following-your-heart_rihanna-i-know-you-ve-been-hurt-by-someo_2666407.jpg)
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