“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“Pearl comes over, to a shell… so beautiful, that hard to spell… even seems, like an angel eye… relation with whom, gonna… — samar sudha Copy Share Image
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms… — Anthony Zerbe Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Give me one more night to taste the dark When wolves imitate a lone dog's bark Let those secrets remain unspoken Fallen… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Every story you've read, play you've seen, every movie and every television show, every poem you've heard and every song... All came… — DS Kenn Copy Share Image
“In verse 12 Paul makes the general point that God judges people by what they know, not by what they do not… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“From the perspective of quantum physics, the affinity experienced by two souls- what i call bilateral attraction- can be understood as a… — Ernest Nkomotje Copy Share Image
We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
“This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words… — Julia Langbein Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Even if you hides behind 100 curtains because of your shyness. Even if you hide your eyes from me your lover, our… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“There is dew on these poems in the morning, and at night a cool breeze may rise from them. In the winter… — Kabir Copy Share Image
“Good. then I will stay here until I get stranded. The water will get higher and higher and no one will be… — Heather T. Smith Copy Share Image
“The poems which touched her heart most, suffusing her with exalted emotion, so that she felt she could gather everything to her,… — halldor laxness Copy Share Image
“ Rapture I can feel she has got out of bed. That means it is seven a.m. I have been lying with… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“A POET IS SOMEONE who is very happy and very sad, who is quick to anger and who loves intensely, who feels… — Sandra Joseph Copy Share Image
“Christmas Hyacinths The air grows cleaner with each sight Of words - silver and clear - Without heaviness and sighs. Winter closes in on… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
“So you find Miss Mercer beautiful?” The buzzing in Spencer’s head formed the words, “’She walks in beauty like the night/Of cloudless… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or socialized, not as writers. Their subject… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles -… — Plato Copy Share Image
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
There's a verse in the Bible: 'Those who are barren have more children than those who give birth.' There are young people… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
“Conflicting stories continue to circulate concerning the death of the President. A second White House announcement has now called attention to the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child,… — Nathalie Handal Copy Share Image
“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” For those of us who nurture a win-at-any-cost mentality, this verse should… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
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