Could Quote by Leonard Cohen

The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a donkey." But…

— Matthea Harvey

“I had often toyed with pictures of the future, dreamed of rôles which might be assigned to me—as a poet, maybe, or prophet or…

— Hermann Hesse

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the…

— William Faulkner

Very few people do covers of my tunes.

— Frank Zappa

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

— Kevin Bacon

Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass.

— Brian Acton

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

— William Shakespeare

The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along…

— Jay Michaelson

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed…

— Fay Weldon

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow