Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.
If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.
And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the gift he has given me.
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.
For reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts.
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.
Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.
For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret
Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.
As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.
Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?
I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.
For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.
I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.
I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.
Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?
Snow has turned the world into a cemetery. But the world already was a cemetery and the snow has only come to announce it.
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain.
The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.
You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.