“ The Taxi When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“Transformations All night he ran, his body air, But that was in another year. Lately the answered shape of his laughter, The… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best,… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
Architect, Astronaut, Composer, Writer, Artist, Poet, Love, Lover, Friend, Guide, Perfect Clarity, Complete Madness, Captain, Slave, Passion, Indifference, Hate, Joy, Full, Empty,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“it is the blood of the peasant, the sweat of the weaver, the flesh of the artisan, the words of the poet,… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
“I envision a style: a style that would be beautiful, that someone will invent some day, ten years or ten centuries from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Fat people are not here as a foil to boost your own self-esteem. Fat people are not your inspiration poem. Fat people… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“The decapitation of Medusa by the Greek hero Perseus, assisted by the patriarchalized Goddess Athena, was painted on pottery, carved as bas… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Blaisedell, the poet, had said to him, 'You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Claire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of "fittingness": that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“THE POETRY TEACHER The university gave me a new, elegant classroom to teach in. Only one thing, they said. You can’t bring… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Love, that is first and last of all things made, The light that has the living world for shade, The spirit that… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“In 1914... [German] history, poetry, dream and the individual moment were all combined in one exhilarating sensation...The nation was a creation of… — The Rites of Spring Modris Eksteins Copy Share Image
“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“there was something musical about Ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit the words together,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the… — Bessie Anderson Stanley Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“ Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The Snow Cricket Just beyond the leaves and the white faces Of the lilies, I saw the wings Of the green snow… — Mary Oliver poet Copy Share Image
“The greatest of poems is an inventory. Every kitchen tool becomes ideal because Crusoe might have dropped it in the sea. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“The next morning I awoke and saw the morning sun peeking through my open window. The sound of wind chimes murmured their… — Gary D. Conrad Copy Share Image
“We don't know how to say goodbye, We wander on, shoulder to shoulder Already the sun is going down You're moody, and… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Without this excitement they cannot have their Lyric Verse, and so they get it by any convenient means -- and with absolute… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
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