Apes Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“For your sake poets sequester themselves, gather images to churn the mind, journey forth, ripening with metaphor, and all their lives they are so…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

— Arthur Golden

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

— Erica Jong

“Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters…

— Robinson Jeffers

“Describe plum-blossoms? Better than my verses...white Wordless Butterflies”

— Reikan

“Leaves will fall, cold will creep in A circle of life that ends where it begins It may take a thousand years and a…

— Ryan Winfield

“It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us to look upon the spectacle of this world as a glimpse,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory…

— Donna Tartt

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“and all the beauty and the blasphemy. Petals, petals, scattering from the stands where only vestals were allowed to sit, having tended the flame…

— Sarah Arvio

“with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years.”

— Allen Ginsberg

“and rocks and creaks and moans in the eternal breeze. Through all ages — when the pavement was grass, when it was swamp, through…

— Virginia Woolf