“IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
“Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked ‘What knowest thou of… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has… — John Pudney Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I want to make of your life a monument For the days you lingered in sadness With high towers and wide gardens… — Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne Copy Share Image
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“It's possible to understand the world from studying a leaf. You can comprehend the laws of aerodynamics, mathematics, poetry and biology through… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Everything comes down so pasteurized everything comes down 16 degrees they say your amplifier is too loud turn your amplifier down are… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry:… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I find myself with a camera a lot, like taking pictures. I love writing scripts for my videos. That excites me. Anything… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and… — Nancy Eimers Copy Share Image
“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote.… — Rob Riemen Copy Share Image
“On the inspiration for Never Love a Stranger: “[The book begins with] a poem from To the Unborn by Stella Benson. There… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“from "Semele Recycled" But then your great voice rang out under the skies my name!-- and all those private names for the… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
“Paris and Helen He called her: golden dawn She called him: the wind whistles He called her: heart of the sky She… — Judy Grahn Copy Share Image
There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
“I? What am I?" roared the President, and he rose slowly to an incredible height, like some enormous wave about to arch… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The trick is to ride the wave, Fast, wide-open and in deep Now-magic. Free, burning fear for fuel Generous, knowing there is… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion.… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
“He wrote you a poem?" Evelyn looped her hand around Georgiana's arm and led the way to the chairs lining one side… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“kindness is the foundation for the body that you call home but there are moments when you begin to question whether or… — Tesia Lewis Copy Share Image
We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
![“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has been written about him for me to add to the legend. As that legend began to grow in his lifetime I learned to separate him from his poetry, to find him in person increasingly…” quote by John Pudney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba6/john-pudney-79886_autobiography_dylan-thomas-i-knew-before-and-after-he_2108098.jpg)
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