Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“ Sounds Is Love of All, the World Sounds create soulful existence, When the oceans tide, it is sound; When fervency of… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
“The strings in her mind grew flatter, calmer. The shapes in the hologrid had changed. She heard the man's words, and yet… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“I will paint you With a subtle shade of sadness Sitting on a blue chair In a long forgotten room Surrounded by… — Alacazam Copy Share Image
“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg,… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“...passions, poetry and the ego have been seen as perpetual explosions? But if that's true, then so its its opposite; ever since… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“In trials of ir'n and silver fain “The dead will rise and walk again “The blesséd few that touch the light “Will… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“(...) It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“One difficulty that people seeking to modernize hymnals and the language of worship inevitably run into is that contemporaries are never the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad Shāmlu was… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“I? I walk alone; The midnight street Spins itself from under my feet; My eyes shut These dreaming houses all snuff out;… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The prose poem for me becomes a kind of chamber with no way out… a kind of hunt, because what is hunt… — Sabrina Orah Mark Copy Share Image
Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The poet Rumi writes, 'Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
“Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“My friends, tonight we bring you something entirely different. Something special. The poets will rest, the sonnets will be silent, and what… — Charles Grant Copy Share Image
“Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“A final caution to students: in making judgments on literature, always be honest. Do not pretend to like what you really do… — Laurence Perrine Copy Share Image
I had a country upbringing in a predominantly Maori community, and that contrasted with a very multi-cultured arts community in the Aro… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
“ Rocking Chair Sad is. Scared is. That is all. The rocking chair I live in rocks like a paper boat. Sometimes… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“dear J: I feel lucky that I didn’t fuck you the first time we met in Houston, but luckier that I didn’t… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
