“In Ancient Greek literature male poets tend not simply to portray women as lecherous but to attribute to them a species of… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Pagan At home in the countryside I make the decision to leave your book --overdue at the library-- face up, 'promiscuous' out… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know just how to whisper, I know just how to cry, I know where to find the answers, and I know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“and you without your sadness is like the ocean without water, the sky without the sun and the stars. it just doesn't… — Ashley Rose Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I loved you unabashedly in the rain, you were real, raw, accustomed to pain. I loved you mostly in the rain, where… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I never will be sober while desire guides me, lured by darkness to distant light, where sky gods celebrate those who love night glory, who dare once… — Don Hynes Copy Share Image
“In the republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the… — Martxedn Espada Copy Share Image
Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container.… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“Before you ask others to respect your beliefs, you have to respect their beliefs. Do you respect others beliefs when you recite… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
“We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust,… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology… — Lara Pulver Copy Share Image
“Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,… — William Knox Copy Share Image
“The next “I will” is in John, fourteenth chapter, verse eighteen: “I will not leave you comfortless.” To me it is a… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the… — Iain Crichton Smith Copy Share Image
“(About "Black Debt" by Steve McCaffery) 'Impersonal' as this text is, it is by no means unemotional or uninvolved. We learn nothing--… — Marjorie Perloff Copy Share Image
“If I could only keep up my spirit- if I could only play the game according to the sportsman's code which Rita… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“Remember the year I stopped eating apples? Remember the summer I kept bringing home abandoned chairs? A lucid Vincent wrote to his… — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
“In the early 1920s, Lewis hoped to be remembered as an atheist poet, whose bitter and forceful condemnations of an uncaring and… — Alister McGrath Copy Share Image
I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“Deep within our hearts lies the deepest mystery the inner core of our divine power of endless love the ocean of eternal… — Ramon William Ravenswood Copy Share Image
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the… — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
“The laws of the Islamic state would be derived first from the Koran. But since only about six hundred of its six… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
