He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry;… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“We all hit rock bottom; sometimes, you bounce up fast, sometimes you crawl until you can straighten up and sometimes you have… — J. Autherine Copy Share Image
“Wherever we walk we will make Wherever we protest we will go planting Make poems seed grass feed a child growing build… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“I miss you, mourn for you, and walk the streets alone- often at night, beside, I fall asleep in tears, for your… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
“The poet should even act his story with the very gestures of his personages. Given the same natural qualifications, he who feels… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“Their special scent is a part of many of our perfumes. Photos or paintings of roses grace calendars, cards and advertisements. Poets… — Maggie Oster Copy Share Image
“It didn’t disturb the Sumerians that their script was ill-suited for writing poetry. They didn’t invent it in order to copy spoken… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“I think I was enchanted When first a sombre Girl — I read that Foreign Lady** — The Dark — felt beautiful… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“some were simple idlers spending an inheritance pretending to be poets or painters; and a couple were medical students, who had a… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Recuerdo que algún día yo le hablé de mi río y una como tormenta se agitó en sus estrañas. No sé si… — Julia de Burgos Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The Canopic Inversion by Stewart Stafford In nascent light, their nose-rings entwined, Like a brazen Hathor daughter, Funnelled to market and auction,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The Fever Bird The fever bird sand out last night. I could not sleep, try as I might. My brain was split,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“When you are reading your Scriptures in this way—it matters not whether you have read little or much—if a verse stands out… — David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
There were a few verses that I wrote literally on the spot. But the concept was there. It's about being in your… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
“John Burroughs beautifully expresses this in his poem “Waiting”: Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I didn't know how this would play out when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to play ball, be a… — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around;… — Gotye Copy Share Image
Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Well,” Match says, “we’re just gonna have to take care of business. That’s what my old man always told me. He always… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“I had never met another who loved my mind more than my body. I could feel his curiosity finger-walk through my thoughts...… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“A story, whether it be novel, short fiction, screenplay, play or poetry or any form of non-fiction, is like an ecosystem in… — Andrew Binks Copy Share Image
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
From the beginning we never fit in anywhere. We played shows with death metal, reggae, hip-hop artists and even feminist poets. We… — Gym Class Heroes Copy Share Image
“From hip-hop, I drew my earliest sense of what writing should mean. Grammar was never the point. Grammar was for the schoolmen… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Thunder rumbles in the mountain passes And lightning rattles the eaves of our houses. Flood waters await… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“there are stars you haven't seen and loves you haven't loved there's light you haven't felt and sunrises yet to dawn there… — Gaby Comprés Copy Share Image
Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
