Apparel Quote by Robert Herrick

A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment of courage,…

— Joseph Conrad

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of…

— Aldo Leopold

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

— Anatole Broyard

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an…

— Antonin Artaud

“Who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish.”

— Allen Ginsberg

“A swift rhythm is played out by my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many, the meter and…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“Now it is very striking, and well worth investigating, that such trifling, nay, apparently childish, means as metre and rhyme produce so powerful an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the…

— Walter Pater

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One…

— Knut Hamsun

“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one…

— Lauren Willig