The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh… — Paul Heyse Copy Share Image
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement… — Dimitris Mita Copy Share Image
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
“...Yes, now the roads themselves are shattered As though they had fallen from a height, and the sky Is cracked like varnish.… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One thing to which I am most grateful Is that my work slumbers on,sweetly, Not yet discovered, And shall not conjure that… — Philip Wickham Copy Share Image
“In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
“I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
With 'Love Shack,' once we put that chorus in, it did have more of a song structure. Even though the verses are… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“This Jesus of Nazereth without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caeser, Muhammad and Napoleon; without science and learning, He… — John Schaff Copy Share Image
“We made love outdoors—without a roof, I like most, without stove, my favorite place, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Between the Pedestals of Night and Morning Between red death and radiant desire With not one sound of triumph or of warning… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Finally, Gunner spoke, his voice so fluid and moving, it could have come from the river itself. "I once hear a poem… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
“Why incentivize laziness? High-school students shouldn't be discouraged from grappling, sometimes unsuccessfully, with challenging books, pictures, and songs. A really, really good… — Jeff Sypeck Copy Share Image
Jose Marti, known as 'the Apostle of Cuban Independence,' was an influential poet, journalist, and political theorist who became a symbol for… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
“Modern poets like Frost still want to make 'deep' statements; but they are also more sceptical of such high-sounding generalities than many… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“For the grace of the presence, be grateful. Touch the cloth of the robe, but do not pull it toward you, or… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and… — John Gillespie MaGee Jr Copy Share Image
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
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