The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the… — Graham Hough Copy Share Image
“Season's Greetings by Stewart Stafford Season's Greetings To those we are needing, While I am leading The Festive charge. Christmas love is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children… — Assia Djebar Copy Share Image
I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature,… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared… — Michael Tierra Copy Share Image
[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it… [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet.” “How… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling… — Arca Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The Almeida's artistic director, Rupert Goold, brought me Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' with the slightly apologetic warning that it was in… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
“All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair— The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing— And Winter, slumbering in the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“He walked out the door and with each step my heart breaks. He'd be gone for days with long silences between each… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Certainly imagery can be gleaned from the industrial world — what do Blake's "dark Satanic Mills," for example, owe to the natural… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Odysseus is a migrant, but he is also a political and military leader, a strategist, a poet, a loving husband and father,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Tell me it was for the hunger & nothing less. For hunger is to give the body what it knows it cannot… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
“The most important lesson I took away from my year on the competitive memory circuit was not the secret to learning poetry… — Joshau Foer Copy Share Image
Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless. Three… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“…Let all lights but yours be nothing to me. Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“She was the storm, could be found by the sea, sometimes lost in the tides. He was the calm, gently embracing her… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Those who do not carry within them the soul of everything the world can show them, will do well to watch it:… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes" First, her tippet made of tulle, easily lifted off her shoulders and laid on the back of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It is the most annoyingly painful feeling in the world when there is someone willing to write until their fingers have ached… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
![“[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it… [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world.” quote by Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91d/rajneesh-54_be-creative_m-editation-is-not-just-being-silent-tha_1099653.jpg)
![“Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests.” quote by Frank Moore Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7f/frank-moore-cross-14963_criticism_certainly-professionally-yes-i-was-inter_3110471.jpg)
![“The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.” quote by Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/370/isadora-duncan-7255_art_the-noblest-art-is-the-nude-this-truth-i_917024.jpg)
