We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“If Amy had one ounce of romance in her soul, she would be sighing with gratification. Instead, she said acerbically, “All that’s… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
“The experiences, the lessons, and the defeats, They were all necessary for me to be me, took me a while being blind… — Michael Perez Copy Share Image
I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Letter to Myself, in Remission, from Myself, Terminal" You'll come to hate your own poems, read them as pretty wisps of colorful… — Anya Krugovoy Silver Copy Share Image
“Good. then I will stay here until I get stranded. The water will get higher and higher and no one will be… — Heather T. Smith Copy Share Image
“The poems which touched her heart most, suffusing her with exalted emotion, so that she felt she could gather everything to her,… — halldor laxness Copy Share Image
“There is dew on these poems in the morning, and at night a cool breeze may rise from them. In the winter… — Kabir Copy Share Image
“A POET IS SOMEONE who is very happy and very sad, who is quick to anger and who loves intensely, who feels… — Sandra Joseph Copy Share Image
“Christmas Hyacinths The air grows cleaner with each sight Of words - silver and clear - Without heaviness and sighs. Winter closes in on… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“ Rapture I can feel she has got out of bed. That means it is seven a.m. I have been lying with… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or socialized, not as writers. Their subject… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles -… — Plato Copy Share Image
My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
“So you find Miss Mercer beautiful?” The buzzing in Spencer’s head formed the words, “’She walks in beauty like the night/Of cloudless… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“In some ways Coleridge committed a form of artistic suicide attempting to solve the complicated mystery he saw in the flocking starlings.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“But usually not. Usually she thinks of the path to his house, whether deer had eaten the tops of the fiddleheads, why… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“I make so many plans but fail at follow-through. Gemini mind once a mat for you to wipe your feet. I’d beg… — Donato DiCristino Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand… nor look through the eyes of the dead… nor feed on… — John Green Copy Share Image
There are Behan experts in international universities, but we seem to have forgotten him here in Ireland. He was an extraordinarily gifted… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show.… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We have, then, three Books wholly and one partially written before, and two after, the Preface; and only one of the first… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was… — Ami McKay Copy Share Image
“AS their peculiar perfume is the chief association with spices, so sorcery is allied in every memory to gypsies. And as it… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
![“I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/590/elie-wiesel-341_attributes_i-read-the-text-and-then-i-come-to-the-s_340239.png)
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