... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
It is absolutely vital to preserve a space where the mind, by means of poetic thinking, can move in a free, even… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Our lives can be filled with a series of trials. Some would say “You’re either in one, coming out of one or… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None,… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“I am nine. We are bored and Karen is dying. We drove to Austin that summer so Sarah's dad- who described Karen… — Olivia Gatwood Copy Share Image
“She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to… — Gustavo Pérez Firmat Copy Share Image
“It is in the last step that one finds the unfathomable beginning; it is in the aloneness that one discovers himself never… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
My childhood was all about going to church, singing in church. And later on, after I got a little older, my mother… — Rudy Ray Moore Copy Share Image
“There is the buried language and there is the individual vocabulary, and the process of poetry is one of excavation and of… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Because you fight it out, and stumble, and write bad poetry, and pick yourself up again, and at the end, hopefully, someday… — Josie Bloss Copy Share Image
“But while admiring my neighbour, I don't think I shall ever try to follow in her steps, my talents not being of… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“The evening sky is gold and vast. I’m soothed by April’s cool caress. You’re late. Too many years have passed, - I’m… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“That night I looked Stephanie [Burt] up online and started reading more about her work...I kept encountering a striking factoid...: she’s often… — Mitch Kellaway Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“You wouldn't think the touch of someone's hand could blow your mind. It's nothing, right? People don't right songs and poems about… — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
“Shadows of Shadows passing... It is now 1831... and as always, I am absorbed with a delicate thought. It is how poetry… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Promise me this. When you find yourself in need of inspiration, bypass the roses that will clamor aimlessly for attention. And focus… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for any individual upon this earth… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“My mom has poetry in her, something I never would have guessed. It must be where my words come from, flowing through… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to… — George Stevens Copy Share Image
As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse… it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom,… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
![“That night I looked Stephanie [Burt] up online and started reading more about her work...I kept encountering a striking factoid...: she’s often cited as the most influential poetry critic of her generation. And she’s openly trans. This is not the world I was taught I would grow into when I was a…” quote by Mitch Kellaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e62/mitch-kellaway-52397_poetry_that-night-i-looked-stephanie-burt-up-on_1972814.jpg)
