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Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a… — Berenice Abbott
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly,… — Marcel Duchamp
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy… — Unknown Author
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. — Horace
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. — Natalie Goldberg
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out. — Unknown Author
Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is… — Kurt Vonnegut
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would… — Carly Simon
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. — Michel de Montaigne
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be,… — Andy Wilkinson
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the… — Dan Beachy-Quick
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem. — Ann Reed
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on the… — Iron & Wine
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related… — Northrop Frye
The one great poem of New England is her Sunday. — Henry Ward Beecher
Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does… — Sijie Dai
Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future. — Ricky Martin
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical… — Lyn Hejinian
But here I hold your dream in my poem. — Rae Armantrout
A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in… — Dorianne Laux
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem. — Unknown Author
I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the… — Jorie Graham
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare… — Unknown Author

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