“Eleven or twelve hundred years ago the poem Beowulf explored the contradictions of treasure: jewels and gold that when they have been… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
“ The Infinite It was always dear to me, this solitary hill, and this hedgerow here, that closes out my view, from… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
“I don’t want safety or guarantees— I want a life worth living. I want to jump off a skyscraper And fashion a… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist,… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“What appears in the former statue of Apollo, however, cannot simply be equated with the Olympian of the same name, who had… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“To the poet, Every act is poetry; From cutting the grass, To cleaning a headstone. From walking, To breathing. Every act is… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“2.07 WALK OF LIFE Life but like a cycle that you be riding, You will fall if you ever stop peddling, Life… — Munindra (Munnan) Misra Copy Share Image
“I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“A Poem By Max White is the color of little bunnies with pink noses. White is the color of fluffy clouds fluffing… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Clarissa will be bereaved, deeply lonely, but she will not die. She will be too much in love with life, with London.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“As far as I was concerned, I wrote songs; chords and beats and lyrics, verses. and bridges and hooks. But then, as… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“If you're reading this book, there is probably an artist or band whose music you have an intense personal relationship with. I… — Steven Hyden Copy Share Image
I was raised in a strict fundamentalist household, and I always say that gives you a muscle of belief. I want to… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“Have compassion for everyone you meet even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a… — Dr. Katinka van der Merwe Copy Share Image
LOVE CAN TRAVEL MILES AWAY POEM Love Can Travel Miles Away Just Like Time Does During Night & Day But As Love… — SangFroid Shaalu Copy Share Image
The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Here is another Inspirational Poem that gives peace and strength The mind always fights between the wrong and the right, Be aware… — Ron Sen Copy Share Image
With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“To say that a poet is justified in employing a disintegrating form in order to express a feeling of disintegration, is merely… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“all hopes there, so close to each other, are pulled into the void every night; when a band of pale twinkles milking… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I never felt so...argh and grrr and hmmm before." Pauline laughed. "That's a godd one." I glared at her, throwing a croissant… — Natalie Herzer Copy Share Image
I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said,… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
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