To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 2. The despair of the blank page: it… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“THE MEANING OF A DAY: Each new dawn brings with it 15 new reasons for laughs, 100,000 new heartbeats in your chest,… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
“Is there any reward? I'm beginning to doubt it. I am broken and bored, Is there any reward? Reassure me, Good Lord,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Ye who have laid your love to rest, And wept above their lifeless clay, Know not the anguish of that breast, Whose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits.… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“poet Harold Hart Crane #203 on top 500 poets Poet's Page Poems Comments Stats E-Books Biography Videos Share on Facebook Share on… — Harold Hart Crane Copy Share Image
“This light represents the finest of all of us: Our art, poetry and songs, discoveries, creations, and science. Our ability to pick… — Ruth Ann Oskolkoff Copy Share Image
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“First, Genesis 1:29–3015 teaches that man and animals were originally vegetarian (before Adam’s sin). How do we know this for sure? Humans… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness.… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions… — Stephan Delbos Copy Share Image
'Alone with my thoughts and then ... I think. I think I should fight and beat my anxiety.My anxieties, sometimes we succeed,… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols; that Nature is the immense shadow of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. And you teach your sons and… — Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“All my contemporaries— hundred-and-fivers or convicts— will tell you how we lived in barely sentient fear, raising children for the executioner, prison,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive… — Ken Tucker Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor.… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
“It nods and curtseys and recovers When the wind blows above, The nettle on the graves of lovers That hanged themselves for… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
“The dark side of the butterflies: Another secret of the shadows The heart of the universe It's a summer afternoon. Summer's afternoon!… — Daniel Wamba Copy Share Image
“There were times when I was blown away by the virgin beauty of the land. Kind of like that guy who lost… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
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