“But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“From the first note I knew it was different from anything I had ever heard… It began simply, but with an arresting… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
“ With Rue My Heart Is Laden With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“I think of published poets that you could know of...I think [Rainer Maria Rilke] probably has the most great published poems of… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
“I have accepted that this is how it’s going to be that love and longing are going to take turns to sleep… — Sakshi Narula Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
You need a balance at all times. If the verse is a bit messy, you need it to be less messy right… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
“He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“I love you." Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Everyday, things are getting better Here one day I'll be going backwards Until that day, I'll just wonder Why have I not… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
“We love with all our heart but we also keep our heart light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“Life shows us all colours, some bright and some shades of grey, Some accept with a smile, while some frown in every… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history lies in… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“A poet's marriage to his time is a forced marriage. A marriage of which - as of any suffered violence - he… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“Keep Moving... Move forward Let go Give in Decide and just Do Progress every day And make one step forward no matter… — Emma Daley Copy Share Image
“What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Begun in fire, ending in ice. The poet was wrong; ice was a better destroyer than fire, particularly if you were in… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
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“Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A number of people have written poems about Trump already, and I salute them. He is so beyond anything we could have… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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“ Only In Sleep Only in sleep I see their faces, Children I played with when I was a child, Louise comes… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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When I wrote 'East,' I wanted a completely earthy, very sexy, very violent play, so I wrote in verse. I found it… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or… — John Barth Copy Share Image
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At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
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