“the inlet our friend looks as he did when we first knew him, and until I wake I believe I will die… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“…The love of his youth Appeared as in a dream And this ageing lover Went mad with love. The youth robbed him… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry,"… — Pablo Casals according to Eric Siblin Copy Share Image
“imagine your heart is just a ball you learned to dribble up and down the length of your driveway back home. slow… — Brionne Janae Copy Share Image
“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F.… — Paul Heyse Copy Share Image
“I have been the meaning of rape I have been the problem everyone seeks to eliminate by forced penetration with or without… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“It commenced — ‘“Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“Nexus I wrote stubbornly into the evening. At the window, a giant praying mantis rubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass,… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou 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
“Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective,… — Chris Kraus 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
I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“بسم اللە الرحمن الرحیم إِنَّ رَبَّكُمْ اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ (فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ) ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى عَلَى الْعَرْشِ يُغْشِي اللَّيْلَ النَّهَارَ يَطْلُبُهُ… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Love was a word that poets and songwriters used. They vested the emotion with tremendous powers over the human heart and mind,… — Sandra Brown 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
![“How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!” quote by Pablo Casals according to Eric Siblin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/808/pablo-casals-according-to-eric_artistic_how-could-anybody-think-of-bach-as-cold_2641239.jpg)
