When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven!… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“One-and-twenty sorts of birds,” said Ser Kyle. “One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings,” said Ser Maynard. “You have no poetry in your heart,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
“I have a little boy, younger than you, who knows six Psalms by heart: and when you ask him which he would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“This is the creature there has never been. They never knew it, and yet, none the less, they loved the way it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
“In my life are many windows and many graves. Sometimes they exchange roles: then a window is closed forever, then by way… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
“He pulled out a book here and there, but what kept catching his attention were the diagonal tunnels of sunlight rolling in… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear from a band that pretty much sounds like another band. Oh I've heared this riff before, or… — Gordon Raphael Copy Share Image
“The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German Tanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers, A magnitude of beauty… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we’re tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“By the end of the evening I was like a man, terribly in love with her face and body, which promised so… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“(I also occasionally write poems, after first explaining carefully to the audience and myself that I am not a poet and this… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
Dreamland Packs Boy friend, blowing the dough, baby? Given him the needle, and blow his bubble. Put him in his place, and… — Javaz Copy Share Image
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“Renunciation, The Natural Daughter demonstrates, is the act of those who believe that their happiness is dependent on a power beyond their… — Nicholas Boyle Copy Share Image
Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
“There is a story that Simonides was dining at the house of a wealthy nobleman named Scopas at Crannon in Thessaly, and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“ Picnic, Lightning It is possible to be struck by a meteor or a single-engine plane while reading in a chair at… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
There's a verse in the Bible: 'Those who are barren have more children than those who give birth.' There are young people… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child,… — Nathalie Handal Copy Share Image
“Conflicting stories continue to circulate concerning the death of the President. A second White House announcement has now called attention to the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” For those of us who nurture a win-at-any-cost mentality, this verse should… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
