2,332 quotes found
“Some have won a wild delight,By daring wilder sorrow;Could I gain thy love to-night,I'd hazard death to-morrow.”
“No more dreamin about the whole adult gig,We’re no longer burnin’ toward nothing, dude. Just well on our way on a mythical ship, which no longer touches Land. God Bless the Cap’n.”
“You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.”
“A versifier’s poem is born by the sound”
“poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?”
“The Old StoicRiches I hold in light esteem, And Love I laugh to scorn; And lust of fame was but a dream, That vanished with the morn:And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, "Le...”
“I turn to Willa Cather’s quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the grea...”
“Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and app...”
“Never mind the stillness -the deep sleeps to”
“Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.”
“And I am weary of the anguishIncreasing winters bear;Weary to watch the spirit languishThrough years of dead despair.So, if a tear, when thou art dying,Should haply fall from me,It is but that my s...”
“Yo me salgo desnudo a la calle,maduro de versos perdidos.I step naked into the streetripe with lost poems.”
“I can't promise to becalm, dignified,and indifferent, like a rock by the sea...If my heart's going to break, let it break from anger,grief,or”
“Let me lay bare my soulto show you’re not alonein this naked rawness- Vulnerable”
“When I wasn’t in the barn garden, helping out, sorting seeds or checking hoses I’d spend time alone, usually in the bathroom adjacent to Joel’s room, staring into the shattered mirror as my hand ge...”
“Thrift is poetic because it is creative”
“Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live?”
“It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.”
“I don’t think I’m crazy, but then again, define crazy.”
“Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room fi...”
