“Recreation And when we had invented death, had severed every soul from life we made of these our bodies sepulchers. And as… — Scott Cairns Copy Share Image
“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Letting the religious right teach ID in schools is like letting the Marines teach poetry in advanced combat training. As a scientist,… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
On the second verse of 'Tears to Snow,' I talk about rappers and the way they view me now, rappers in the… — Hopsin Copy Share Image
Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“But drunkenly, or secretly, we swore, Disciples of that astigmatic saint, That we would never leave the island Until we had put… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I am a shadow. I walk the wet roads under the dim light of the pale lamps, in the darkest hour of… — Foaad Ahmad Copy Share Image
The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“It is disappointing how people tend not to read a broad range of material. When the poets only read poetry, the historians… — Anthony Leskov Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“He had not been able to see it in himself, but looking at Hungerford, he was able at least to speculate on… — David Slavitt Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with… — Elizabeth Alexander Copy Share Image
“The flowers that I left in the ground, that I did not gather for you, today I bring them all back, to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Storms, those whirlwinds and symphonies in the sky, nourish her midnight soul and comfort her gypsy spirit. Those tempests amplify the starlight… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I Jarrod have created this poem on my own. If you like it subscribe and say something and rate it!tell me if… — Jarrod Copy Share Image
“Such a nasty bruise,” he says, staring straight into my eyes. I am stunned he can see it. Delicate to the touch… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry.… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“The key verse to the Book of Daniel is Daniel 2:44: “And in the days of these kings shall the God of… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in "foreign… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The Prophet himself sometimes openly suppressed or negated older verses, considering them to have been replaced by newer ones. That is because… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“But there is a third mode of trancendence: in it language simply ceases, and the motion of spirit gives no further outward… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“It comes down to this: we're pieces of equipment To be counted and signed for. On occasion some of us break down,… — Rolando Hinojosa Copy Share Image
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness. I would be a fox, or… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
