“He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“Wawashkesh these apples are for you, red on the white snow, their cider tang will find you in the gray woods. There… — Ron Riekki Copy Share Image
“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions.… — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“Most times I look at Shadow and Poet's work, I see something different from what the words are telling me. I like… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“I can pull you taut, Ashleigh. Like the poems. I can bring you back together. You are so fucking delicious, Ashleigh. So… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“She's a tangled mess of wild- a forest nymph, a goddess child. She's like the seductive sea - feral and fierce, calm… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“But love, first learnèd in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immurèd in the brain, But, with the motion of all elements,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“These I have loved: Pork with apple sauce; tea in a heavy mug; The smell of new books, and musty ones; A… — Sarah Crossan Copy Share Image
There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that.… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds Along the pebbled shore of memory! Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be Upon thy vaporous… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“I write poetry not for publication but merely to kill time. Airplanes are a good place to write poetry and then throw… — Irish" Wayne Kelly Copy Share Image
“There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting; It’s luring me on as of old; Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wanting… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“Jason Mashak’s SALTY AS A LIP is grounded in a voice patiently bridging the “steeples and ‘scrapers” of an inquisitive mind. The… — James Ragan Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“The History Teacher Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“The Work of Art. When I watch the audience at a concert or the crowd in the picture gallery I ask myself… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“... I slipped our wicker bed and walked the sands where we were also roughly repeated: some young couple, "you did," "I… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 in Meudon as a… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“I am the fire,” Crash whispered. “I am the darkness.” It was a mantra, a prayer, the beginnings of a ritual, a… — T.L. Shreffler Copy Share Image
But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious… — Yossi Klein Halevi Copy Share Image
“ Going There Of course it was a disaster. The unbearable, dearest secret has always been a disaster. The danger when we… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry:… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once… — Khalid Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
“sometimes i don't know, which moment which cool gust of wind will come, and enchant me tousling my hair and my heart,… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“I remember the first time I saw my favorite painting, how its fragile beauty caught my breath. And I thought if the… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
