Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. – Matthew Arnold Category: Poetry
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. – John C. Ransom Category: Poetry
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart. – Cheryl Hines Category: Poetry
Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking – its just that Im one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. – Andrew Motion Category: Poetry
Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart’s curtain? – Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, “The Fourth Elegy,” translated from German by Category: Heart
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. – Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771 Category: Genius
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. – Fulton Oursler Category: Live Now
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. – H.W. Shaw Category: Self-Discovery
