“And it didn’t matter how many songs or poems had already been written about them, because whenever he thought about the girl,… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the pagan spirit of Roman poetry arouses qualms. Guibert of Nogent confesses in his autobiography that early in his monastic life… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
“He read me another poem, and another one - and he explained the true history of poetry, which is a kind of… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then… — Drake Copy Share Image
“If I could describe myself, I'd say that I am a poetic gerd. (A geek and nerd combo) I love Shakespeare and… — Melanie Kay Taylor Copy Share Image
“Good God, Enrique was writing poetry to her? Yes, and why hadn’t he thought of poetry? Besides the obvious reason of his… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
“When Hitler marched across the Rhine To take the land of France, La dame de fer decided, ‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In the arts, in places where you're not going to save lives or save species, I think there's no reason to play… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Latino patriots have served and fought in every war. They are artists, dancers, singers, poets and journalists, teachers and scientists. More and… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
“She: The Final Becoming There comes a moment, one that’s often overlooked or misinterpreted, where the search for identity stops being a… — L. Rose Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world… — Kelly Cherry Copy Share Image
“Sebastian's eyes were the color of smoke and silver. His pale skin, raven hair, and naturally dark red lips, paired with a… — Kelly Keaton Copy Share Image
“When thinking is overrated And friends are easy to make, Check if it's too complicated Knowing yourself somehow... Inner peace's not hard… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Her head fell back as she cried out. She reached for him, drawing him down to her, loving the weight of him,… — Josie Litton Copy Share Image
“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom,… — Gil Evans Copy Share Image
Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Theres something inside me waiting to explode, I am writing this now to let you know. Every heart has a song, and… — Raina Chapman Copy Share Image
“The beauty of man is often the child that lives on in him. Source: The River Goddess by Vijay Singh Only humour… — writer-filmmaker Vijay Singh Copy Share Image
It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is you who are unpoetical," replied the poet Syme. "If what you say of clerks is true, they can only be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“In The Sunset Sky The sunset sky dazzling with the golden hues, Taking bow in brilliant sparkle of experience Is it not… — Soma Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians still don’t understand the ball our hands made, or how your electrocuted grandparents made it possible for you to light my… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“Poetry ~~ No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is… — Henry Daid Thoreau Journal 26 Jan 1840 Copy Share Image
