Best Quote by Miller Williams

“The Messenger Ritual 1. Sit down and relax completely. Let your mind wander and your thinking flow without restraint. After a while, begin to…

— Paulo Coelho

Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things…

— Andrew Hoberek

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be…

— Matthea Harvey

“So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do,…

— Virginia Woolf

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

— Joseph Addison

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by…

— Eric Linklater

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose…

— Alain de Botton

I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary…

— Plato

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

— Stephen Leacock

“Poet has no power over the muse, It's the muse who powers the poet. Best of poetry is an act of selfless care, As…

— Abhijit Naskar