“From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Vergil preferred to give a few touches, and to allow the imagination of his readers to fill out the picture: that is… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“I thought again about throwing language all over a scene, wondered if the emotional mystery of one's response to place doesn't lie… — Daniel Duane Copy Share Image
“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Also, and again I intend no offense, the most meaningful and often harrowing adventures which I and many like me have experienced… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“One probably hears about it. One, wire, recognizes. One holds her bones up next to each other. One insists, grinding the clutch.… — Jennifer Clarvoe Copy Share Image
“If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread, If it is the soul you seek, you will find the… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“You once told me You wanted to find Yourself in the world - And I told you to First apply within, To… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“special thanks to Martha Sharpe and everyone at Anansi; to Mandy Barber, for the use of her stunning visual art; to Karen… — Darren Wershler-Henry Copy Share Image
Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be… — Noor Hindi Copy Share Image
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Lyric," it said. "Melodic. Suitable for singing. A lyric poem. Of the lyre." That didn't seem to make much sense in regards… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“The shoemaker [Johann Ludwig] W[eidmann, 6th-GGF]. has been having some serious scruples about some verses of Holy Scripture, about which I set… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“I’ve brought this city’s dust and smoke home and washed them with my face and clothes, I’ve picked up its raucous sounds… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“His head propped on a stack of poetry books he’d brought from the library. Almost all of them had been inscribed on… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“I saw a sadness shivering in his eyes that night. They resemble a heart flat-lining. I wanted to ask him what put… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Before John could even get through the first verse, who bursts through the door and jumps right into the fray, lips a'kissin'… — Alan Goldsher Copy Share Image
“A black boy brought Wilson's gin and he sipped it very slowly because he had nothing else to do except to return… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
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