A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“This dream the world is having about itself includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise everything and everyone… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
A versifier with neither heart nor soul is, rather than a poet, a dull and lifeless thinking pen or keyboard. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“. . . a racer snake / slicking off / like a signature into the weeds.” — Tony Crunk Copy Share Image
“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.” — Major Jackson Copy Share Image
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“Maybe I just didn’t want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it’d… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.” — Robert Lynd Copy Share Image
“Because life is so much more than internet, bank balance, and materialistic possessions. Poets don't dream of becoming millionaires.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
