People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Too long now things divine have been cheaply used And all the power of heaven, the kindly, spent In trifling waste by… — Friedrich Hölderlin Copy Share Image
While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus,… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." I… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“People think genius a fine thing if it enables a man to write an exciting poem, or paint a picture, But in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I remember the morning you walked back from the sea, dirty trousers rolled, your feet pale as prisoners, poems and broken shells… — Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“THE SCRIBE Under the wings Of the feathered Goddess And in the middle Of the three dancing women, The scribe comes alive… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“verse shows the divine connection of the blowing of the shofar with Yom Teruah. In the New Testament, we see the blowing… — Mark Biltz Copy Share Image
Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“She’s always made her own bed, even when no one else was home, and nowadays she does the same for her soul.… — Broms The Poet Copy Share Image
“I just didn’t get it— even with the teacher holding an orange (the earth) in one hand and a lemon (the moon)… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“My mother was the best and most beautiful woman who ever lived. She was clean, and good, and always helped "the poor… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“This wobbly world host to insects and lint and a thousand pithy ways to feel unserious each minute It brings about a… — Erin J. Watson Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry needs to be "easily understandable." First of all, there are often complexities of syntax, form, unfamiliar absences, etc.,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“In the balance of verse 51:7, though, Jeremiah gives us a further insight into the influence of the Daughter of Babylon on… — John Price Copy Share Image
“For the poetry of a text is largely produced by the fact that the wild chaos of the universe is therein, at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“A wounded heart that loves even more is immortal, it only survives and blooms time after time. If you happen to live… — Nicola An Copy Share Image
“Yes,’ he cried, ‘you have killed my love! You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Havin loved enough and lost enough, I'm no longer searching, just opening, no longer trying to make sense of pain but trying… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“If I ever some day write an epic poem -- or somehow find my imagination fertile enough to write a novel without… — Anne Gédéon LaFitte, Marquis de Pelleport Copy Share Image
