“She pops her head into a bare-looking kitchen and has a little wander round it. Here, she reads, Emily would sometimes make… — Mick Jackson Copy Share Image
“He swept the ears to the floor with his arm and held the last of his wine in the air. Something for… — Carolyn Forché Copy Share Image
When I first became brave enough to tell people that I wrote poems, so many people would rave to me about Edna… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry also contained a wide range of conventional poetic diction, many of the words being created to allow alliterative patterns… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“I'm so good that I'll do what you want me to do--for I feel there's something else you want me to do."… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“in this moment of orangutans, wolves, and scavengers, of high heat redesigning the north & south poles and the wanderings of new… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“During the hours when which our souls should be taking flight... Dancing almost endlessly with our hopes and dreams... As if only… — Christine Upton Copy Share Image
“A Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, once said: ‘Dijiste media verdad. Dirán que mientes dos veces si dices la otra mitad.’” “Translated means…”… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“Poem from Rev. Jim Cotter, as listed on the opening pages of “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss: ~ God be… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a unique ability to distill complex emotions into a few lines, creating a powerful impact that lingers in the hearts… — LaTesha Monique Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
“Someone I loved once told me that there are fragments within us that are the same age as the universe, and because… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know?… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Love, is it morning risen or night deceased That makes the mirth of this triumphant east? Is it bliss given or bitterness… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“He was rowed down from the north in a leather skiff manned by a crew of trolls. His fur cape was caked… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“ALI He was butterfly and bee. In the ring, he floated and stung. In 1967, Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, refused to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Although I had intended to consider the impossibility of returning to those places we’ve come from—not because the places are gone or… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In seventh grade I had a magical teacher, her name was Mrs. Fried. She wore only pink, she drove a pink Mustang,… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Self-love isn’t always so poetic; sometimes it’s a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You’ve got to call yourself… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
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