“...Yes, now the roads themselves are shattered As though they had fallen from a height, and the sky Is cracked like varnish.… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One thing to which I am most grateful Is that my work slumbers on,sweetly, Not yet discovered, And shall not conjure that… — Philip Wickham Copy Share Image
“In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
With 'Love Shack,' once we put that chorus in, it did have more of a song structure. Even though the verses are… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
“I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh… — Paul Heyse Copy Share Image
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement… — Dimitris Mita Copy Share Image
When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Usually when your imagination is bigger then one's comprehension, this normally means you've out grown the small circle. Get with like-mined people… — Takina Cupp Copy Share Image
“We celebrate, we create, as citizens of Shatter. We hold a bond of unending happiness. This planet, at the edge of the… — L'Poni Baldwin Copy Share Image
“But the question is: Is this an appropriate use of this verse, to put God on the hook for a life of… — Eric J. Bargerhuff Copy Share Image
“ Truth And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him, Shall we not fear him After… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“The general welcomes Tamburlaine receiv'd, When he arrived last upon the 1 stage, Have made our poet pen his Second… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The trick is to ride the wave, Fast, wide-open and in deep Now-magic. Free, burning fear for fuel Generous, knowing there is… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion.… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
“He wrote you a poem?" Evelyn looped her hand around Georgiana's arm and led the way to the chairs lining one side… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“ The Taxi When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Transformations All night he ran, his body air, But that was in another year. Lately the answered shape of his laughter, The… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“kindness is the foundation for the body that you call home but there are moments when you begin to question whether or… — Tesia Lewis Copy Share Image
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