I am madly in love with you, just letting you know because I want you to take my hand, hold me, kiss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes,… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point… — David Cage Copy Share Image
“A wind starts to blow, without feelings, A song falls in love, without singing, A life will begin in melodies of the… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“ Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies & the rare… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw hundreds of fiddlehead ferns boiling in an enormous pot I realized what an odd person I must… — Maureen Seaton Copy Share Image
Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“See, Shel (Silverstein) was possessed with one of the worst singing verses ever heard. Musical appreciation is inherently subjective, and it's normally… — Peter Cooper Copy Share Image
If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse,… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
“Blue eyes. No, not just blue, blue like glacial waters, like romantic poems, like heavens and moonstones. Cornflower blue. And- Blue like… — Dani Alexander Copy Share Image
“So what if the heartaches you wrote last year isn't what you're feeling today. it may be exactly what the person in… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Once I had thought chiefly of the man of letters, the traveler, the poet, the lover; none of that had faded, to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“ You have a poem called “Bad Theology.” What would you call a bad theology? I guess any theology that presumes to… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“We arrived and the miracle happened. It was the sea and the wind in the bells. We came from far, from years… — José Manuel Cardona Copy Share Image
“Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other… — Muslih Al-Din Mushrif Ibn Abd Allah Al Saadi 1184 1283 Copy Share Image
The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
