“And those who come together in the night and are entwined in rocking delight do an earnest work and gather sweetnesses, gather… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art;… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
“ Why Roses Crave Thorns " Petals detach from a wilting bud—a single stem plucked before fully blossomed. They descend in hesitant… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A friend of mine, a poet, Rebecca Wolff recently said to me, "You know, your stories are really voice-driven," and I guess… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of… — David Truman Copy Share Image
“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
“In our hands we hold the shadow of our hands. The night is kind―the others do not see us holding our shadow.… — Yannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“Life is a poem It doesn't give us everything. Just some things. Two sturdy branches. A basket of dawns. If we stitch… — Jarod K. Anderson Copy Share Image
I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing?… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The moon glistens in her dreamy eyes as she frolics in the dark forest. She’s got wild overgrowing in her bones, and… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“I saw God wash the world last night With His sweet showers on high and then when morning came i saw Him… — Dr. W. L. Stiger Copy Share Image
“What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I respond to many names. Sometimes I am different people. Sometimes I am the me that howls in the night. Sometimes I… — Jessica Bates Copy Share Image
“Married against their will, kept in one room, and to one occupation, how could a dramatist give a full or interesting or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I let them [Kanye and Pharrell] be them; they let me be me. I'm just a little boy that does poetry whose… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
“And so we sat there in the sickening sillage of the truth, neither of us angry, or upset, just muddling through this… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never… — Graham Foust Copy Share Image
When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“First is a poem, a ballad, out of Scotland. You may say there is no king in it, and of course there… — William Mayne Copy Share Image
My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
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