Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An'… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“Because misogynists are the best of men.” All the poets reacted to these words with hooting. Boccaccio was forced to raise his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Two came here, Two flew off,— Butterflies. Chora3 In this verse, the ordinary poetical meaning is discarded; what remains is that dark… — R. H. Blyth Copy Share Image
I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
“Stone: Yes, we are everything, every experience we've ever had, and in some of us, a lot of it translates and makes… — Ruth Stone Copy Share Image
“They told me to pay attention to my heart; that it would lead me to my purpose, my passion. So I did,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“. . . to my surprise I began to know what The Language was about, not just the part we were singing… — Monica Furlong Copy Share Image
“It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“There’s something helpless about truly being in love, the kind of love they write songs about, that inspires poetry and launches ships… — Kennedy Ryan Copy Share Image
My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious.… — Donald McCaig Copy Share Image
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work… — John Hollander Copy Share Image
“Be Drunken, Always. That is the point; nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weigh you… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“One of his favourite couplets, by the poet Muzaffar Razmi, which he quoted on more than one occasion, in Parliament and to… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I was too fresh from childhood. Subconsciously, my deepest brain still a cupboard of fairy tales, I suppose I believed that if… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things?… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful… — Robert Turnbull Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For me, poetry has a strong link to my filmmaking. My films learn from my poetry. In poetry, you're free. You start… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
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