We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world.… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
“Like a pair of old slippers, I feel comfort and warmth as I slip into you. No, that is too crude. Like… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“You never know that. I don't know it; Robert Lowell doesn't know it; John Berryman didn't know it; and Shakespeare probably didn't… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
See how weak prose is… Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“Most events are inexpressible, and take place in a sphere that no word has ever entered. Most inexpressible of all are works… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Along the field as we came by A year ago, my love and I, The aspen over stile and stone Was talking… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“Attraction The whites of his eyes pull me like moons. He smiles. I believe his face. Already my body slips down in… — Enid Shomer Copy Share Image
“We say verse is fun in the doing, True, that’s what we’re saying. And if our rhymes now are only limping, why… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I screamed at myself in the subway for writing poems about you still. I made a scene. I think about you almost… — Jon Sands Copy Share Image
“Memory Verse Study Guide Jesus’ mission statement for the church is to make disciples. These pivotal verses (Matthew 28:18-20) are commonly referred… — Greg Ogden Copy Share Image
“On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Why is it, he asked, that wherever a Chilean goes in the world, Neruda and his fucking seashells has already been there… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“If one were to list all the cruelties and maltreatments, both physical and emotional, that parents and adults inflict on children under… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
“At some point you have to set aside snobbery and what you think is culture and recognize that any random episode of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Love is the seeking of a way of life. A way that cannot be sought alone. Poetry is the residence of all… — Mekael Shane Copy Share Image
“Wondered to see, these luscious Flowers'' ''Blossoming everywhere, like drops of Shower'' ''WISH! My ecstasy would has that Power'' ''Days come true!… — Samar Sudha Copy Share Image
I keep a journal for my future wife. I jot down love letters, poems, etc. I write as if she's a real… — Ben Copy Share Image
My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“I need to climb the orange trees in Yaffa City, and let the orange branches hold me, and write poetry “كم أتمنى أن أتسلق أشجار برتقال يافا ، و سأسمح لبرتقالة تلفها رائحة حكايات جدتي وتسكنها طفولتي أن تحملني كي أكتب الشعر٠” — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
“To speak again of solitude, it becomes ever clearer that in truth there is nothing we can choose or avoid. We are… — Anita Barrows Copy Share Image
“ Today Today is the day that good things come your way, and then bad things to suck all the fun from… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Submerged Suburbia by Stewart Stafford Fell out of bed, dragging my soul, Looked out the old goldfish bowl, To see suburbia was… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry,… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
“…The heavens could not bear my debt And wrote me as a madman in my fate. But lovers bled their hearts And… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered that some ancient writer on poetry had… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“But all of what Jesus says in this chapter should be read in light of the opening few verses: “Do whatever they… — David Desilva Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
