Love is when ssomebody gives you a shoulder to cry on. Love is soomebody makes you laugh when you're sad. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Outside the street’s on fire In a real death waltz Between what’s flesh and fantasy And the poets down here Don’t write… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“ Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in… — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
“How long your closet held a whiff of you, Long after hangers hung austere and bare. I would walk in and suddenly… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“...in Aristotle...leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work...leisure is pursued solely for its own sake...: the pleasures of music… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenthcentury has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You better ignore this. You better staple your eyes shut and put pot-lids over your ears and pinch your nose with vice… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
“I squatted by the water as it flowed over the tumbled rocks, thought how far they must've come to have settled in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Ice cubes makes your water cold, but it can't make your water wetter. Straws make it easy to drink, but can't make… — Ty Boyland Copy Share Image
“I've never met anyone who loves in the same way. But that's the beauty of finding the heart meant for yours. The… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Dreamlands Num! Poet loathes those dragged out, over inflated, work meetings! Never fails someone cant shut their mouth, No! Not even for… — Javaz Copy Share Image
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“The sun set beyond thesea, so says the poet - and when a poet mentions a sea, we have to accept it;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“True recognition resonates... Within continuous... Any self elaborated recognition... Is frivolous... To know the particular... Requires a soul ocular... Into the deepest… — Hugh Shergill Copy Share Image
This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
