Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Dreamlands Tease-Sucker!Playing with your head again, boy friends a tease! Stop, then Go! Cant tell which way to go! To the edge!… — Javaz Copy Share Image
“Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
My own experience as a reader and writer has been that the more I read, and the more I live, the more… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“ The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“And then I feel the sun itself as it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire -- clearly I'm… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
“Part of Wordsworth’s complaint was directed towards the smoke, congestion, poverty and ugliness of cities, but clean-air bills and slum clearance would… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry:… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Bishop on "A Miracle for Breakfast" and Sestina Technique It seems to me that there are two ways possible for a sestina.… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Both money and art powdered as they are with the romance and poetry of the age are magic. Rather money is magic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words… — Julia Langbein Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Even if you hides behind 100 curtains because of your shyness. Even if you hide your eyes from me your lover, our… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“From the perspective of quantum physics, the affinity experienced by two souls- what i call bilateral attraction- can be understood as a… — Ernest Nkomotje Copy Share Image
We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms… — Anthony Zerbe Copy Share Image
I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
“Give me one more night to taste the dark When wolves imitate a lone dog's bark Let those secrets remain unspoken Fallen… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Every story you've read, play you've seen, every movie and every television show, every poem you've heard and every song... All came… — DS Kenn Copy Share Image
“In verse 12 Paul makes the general point that God judges people by what they know, not by what they do not… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“Pearl comes over, to a shell… so beautiful, that hard to spell… even seems, like an angel eye… relation with whom, gonna… — samar sudha Copy Share Image
![“The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry.Apart from the increased travel, I won't let anything interfere with writing poetry.” quote by J. Patrick Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d3/j-patrick-lewis-30234_animal_the-laureateship-of-u-s-children-s-poet_3076129.jpg)
![“This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teenage mouths are the hotbeds of slang, and its most natural environment. Some years only sounds would…” quote by Julia Langbein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/julia-langbein-137807_natural-environment_this-is-one-of-the-dangers-of-their-teen_436351.jpg)
