“Love is a chemical reaction, But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“These prophetic verses certainly would apply to the United States. Twenty-two of our states have ports or harbors through which flow the… — John Price Copy Share Image
“A BRIEF INTERLUDE It’s been three years since I’ve spent the night with someone who liked me enough to get breakfast in… — Trista Mateer Copy Share Image
“What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my favorite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's very hard to look in a mirror and see anything which resembles what one feels one's self to be. I think… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“A prominent citizen in a small city State, such as Athens or Florence, could without difficulty feel himself important. The earth was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Winter's last rain and a light I don't recognize through the trees and I come back in my mind to the man… — Bruce Weigl Copy Share Image
“YouVersion lets religious leaders input their sermons into the app so their congregants can follow along in real-time — book, verse, and… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“The problem with this poem, from your perspective, must be its lack of financial value. I guess my problem with you, from… — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
“My love of publishing goes back to my first job on the hometown newspaper when I was a 16-year-old cub reporter, but… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil,… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“I shoot the man who told me my womanism is of the devil As if he knew the demons that trouble me… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
“Oh gods... oh gods... I had hurt him... so many times, I had hurt him. By trying to hurt myself, I had… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
“Life without strife is a rose without thorns. Alive as one is thriving today towards tomorrow, Nowhere is the past but simply… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Dryden was a highly prolific literary figure, a professional writer who was at the centre of all the greatest debates of his… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems,… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
“Her religious poetry was surprisingly slender, and as I was eager to know more about her religion, I asked her about this… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
Love is like a rainbow, where each color will flow. Red, of the heart that beats. Orange, funny and sweet. Yellow warm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Three things which inspire the poet:An eye to see the world clearly A heart which feels sincerely And courage to render faithfully… — Colette Ni Reamonn Ioannidou Copy Share Image
“But where the ideas of morality and decency alter from one age to another, and where vicious manners are described, without being… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Poets represent love as sculptors design beauty, as musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“A tall man was learning from a vendor how to pronounce churro. High in the sticky clouds of time, he kept repeating… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“I lost him completely and without warning. Ripped from my life like a breath snatched from my soul. And after all this… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
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