“The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuaries for those who have, for noble reasons, failed to find… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“He loved three things in this life: Vespers, white peacocks, And old maps of America, Didn't love children crying, Raspberries with tea,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it.… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at… — John Green Copy Share Image
“On 9 Jan 2024 at 16:30 Wajid Shaikh wrote this poem on the same maze Where they had met- Milenge tujhse hum… — Wajid Shaikh Copy Share Image
“There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive… — Thomas Lux Copy Share Image
“It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“ Серафимы I Резнею кровавой на время насытясь, Устали и слуги, и доблестный витязь И входят под своды обители Божьей, Где теплятся… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But mostly, finally, ultimately, I'm here for the weather. As a result of the weather, ours is a landscape in a minor… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
“Miss Honey gives us a little song about each word and we all sing it together and we learn to spell it… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to… — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
“Adam and Eve didn't know what they would win or what they would lose until they'd both won and lost it. It's… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“You're asking yourself if you will ever get over it. - I don't believe we ever do. Getting over something implies you… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
There won't be any poetry you can read. There won't be any beautiful songs you can play. There won't be any exotic… — Jiyyah Copy Share Image
What good does it make when you write love poems about someone who dosen't love you back? When I was little I… — Asami Emogu Copy Share Image
“The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But,… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
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There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of poetic language that it gives us not simply the denotation of a word, but a whole cluster of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
When we started reading books to Raffi, I included some Russian ones. A friend had handed down a beautiful book of Daniil… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“May your love for me be like the scent of the evening sea drifting in through a quiet window so i do… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don’t… — Kyoichi Katayama Copy Share Image
![“It is characteristic of poetic language that it gives us not simply the denotation of a word, but a whole cluster of connotations or associated meanings...[but] if connotation is a kind of free associating, how can a poem ever come to mean anything definite? What if Shakespeare's line 'Shall I…” quote by Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8b/terry-eagleton-1660_connotation_it-is-characteristic-of-poetic-language_2347225.png)
