When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Don’t merely read verses; if that is all we do, we run the risk of deceiving ourselves. Don’t just pile up biblical… — Mike Ashcraft Copy Share Image
“A Letter from a Muse to Her Poet: Dear sir, I was called away and couldn’t bring you, but now I feel… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“ The following year the house was substantially remodeled, and the conservatory removed. As the walls of the now crumbling wall were… — Jamie Fuller Copy Share Image
I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“When I was younger I thought that the fantasy of becoming invisible and the desire to become a poet stood in an… — Shuji Terayama Copy Share Image
“Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
In 2001, the hard disk on my laptop crashed, and everything on it was lost. I'd been using the computer for two,… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way, Down this still stream we took our meadowy way, A poet wise has settled, whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Woman with known intent intending to explore Woman with her senses on the edge edging for some more..." From my poem, "Known… — Clarissa Clemens Copy Share Image
“The Everlasting Staircase" Jeffrey McDaniel When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live, my first thought was: can't she postpone her… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
“She was resilient A brave soldier when life tested her It didn't matter that she did strange things like stand tall under… — M.J. Abraham Copy Share Image
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS Before you were born, And were still too tiny for The human eye to see, You won the race… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“ Швея Уж третий день ни с кем не говорю... А мысли — жадные и злые. Болит спина; куда ни посмотрю —… — Zinaida Gippius Copy Share Image
An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'm Trying: I'm trying To be perfect. I'm trying To be good. I'm trying To be what you want. I'm trying To… — PM Copy Share Image
In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
“Friends, the ancient word is dead; the ancient books are dead; our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead; our poems… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet.. "Ah, great it is to believe the… — Markham Edwin Copy Share Image
“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“How I go to the wood Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“His velvet brush dips deep and lingers there in the warm inkwell of her endless desire. The ink of passion flows for… — Brianna Hughes Copy Share Image
“Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Here’s a hand to the boy who has courage To do what he knows to be right; When he falls in the… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
“There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
![“The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost was very, very good at that. If you're asking whatit MEANS that the line is repeated [and miles to go before I sleep] I'd have to say I don't know. It's stylistic. But the effect is pretty clear.” quote by Haven Kimmel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28e/haven-kimmel-14289_books_the-best-answer-i-can-give-is-that-poetr_1294407.jpg)
![“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is…” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e07/t-s-eliot-633_bits_on-the-waste-land-various-critics-have-d_2387391.png)
