Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“And if you were to come across her unexpectedly on the road, your heart would not beat faster like a trapped bird… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
Malachi 3 verse 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in… — Magdalyn Copy Share Image
In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“LOVE is the only bow on life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Aristotle’s most widely-read work is his esoteric treatise on aesthetics, the Poetics. According to his analysis of tragic poetry (a section… — The New York Times Copy Share Image
“Cade thought about this. “Let me get this straight—you secretly pretend to like poetry to impress the smart girl in your English… — Julie James Copy Share Image
I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“And I'll flip through the newest issue, walking back from my blue mailbox, hunting for the poem he chose over mine, and… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“WE ARE ALL HUMAN It should not matter - That we grew up On opposite banks, Opposite streets, The opposite Side of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Matt smirked. “Well, it is interesting because lots of poems have mathematical imagery or structure. Concrete triangular poems and syllabic verse, for… — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“Mountain Center" Maureen McLane The cords are strong a loose weave strung between white pines. Now I will offer a transcript of… — Maureen McLane Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“But I withhold my pen; for vain were the fancy, by treatise or sermon or poem or tale, to persuade a man… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The poet he was escorting into Wales was a Horus-headed dud of some personal magnetism. The hair was feathered gell, the nose… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
My path to poetry was slow and meandering. When I eventually found my way to graduate school at 29, making a life… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Listen. Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall? Look. Do you sense that you can’t see love? Touch. Do you grasp… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“...it seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“When Straight Women Flirt …With Me She sits on my lesbian lap both of us too much wine arm around my shoulder… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I used to think love was two people sucking on the same straw to see whose thirst was stronger, but then I… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“My heart gave me no respite, I was like a madman last night. All night I was beguiled, Indulged and fantasized. The… — Amir Khusrow Dehlavi Copy Share Image
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“Whispering wind, a quiet breath exhaled across years of tiny, fragments of light. Glowing in the breeze, like silent fireworks, accentuating my… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Woke Up Today' is a number of different sections compounded together. There's the melodica solo section which is three divisions; there's the… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
“They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
“It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father,… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
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