“But I being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, 'Alas! All things that have been born were born to… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“I think, maybe, I fell in love with your patterns and inconsistencies, like the way you squeak in your sleep. And the… — Charlotte Scott Copy Share Image
I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“I think of thee!—-my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree, Put out broad leaves, and… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
“This is the gift of humanity: that it is claimed by the self. None of us...are human unless and until we claim… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel!… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg,… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“...passions, poetry and the ego have been seen as perpetual explosions? But if that's true, then so its its opposite; ever since… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“(...) It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“In trials of ir'n and silver fain “The dead will rise and walk again “The blesséd few that touch the light “Will… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“You are strange. A deep sea of mystery. Tangled mix of starlight and darkness. A beautiful mess, and I am devastatingly drawn… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
“ Sounds Is Love of All, the World Sounds create soulful existence, When the oceans tide, it is sound; When fervency of… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I will paint you With a subtle shade of sadness Sitting on a blue chair In a long forgotten room Surrounded by… — Alacazam Copy Share Image
“The strings in her mind grew flatter, calmer. The shapes in the hologrid had changed. She heard the man's words, and yet… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe… — Robin Blaser Copy Share Image
“You don't need to get the reference to get the joke; but the joke eventually got me to Swinburne, who would gradually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“ Solitude There is a charm in Solitude that cheers A feeling that the world knows nothing of A green delight the… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“even the slightest stir in the broad grammar of existence—a moment asking only to be noticed—was enough to rekindle that astonished brightness,… — Neena H. Brar Copy Share Image
“When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
My life is like a song and I think I know the words, And as I start to sing along the whole… — MURS Copy Share Image
![“I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that I'm acting out of place, bringing too much attention to myself - but for the funeral of our leader John Garang, they had me write the poem "Chol Apieth" to eulogize…” quote by Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42c/kola-boof-12327_acting_i-have-never-received-full-credit-from-t_3211157.jpg)
