“You are immensely gifted my friend You can find it within you Like I found something within me A few years ago...” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician… — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
“I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have but the past to parent us?” — Kathleen Driskell Copy Share Image
There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“What was it Like?" "What was what like?" he said, although he knew. "Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something.… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one… — Phoebe Tonkin Copy Share Image
“With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.” — E. Millicent Sowerby Copy Share Image
