top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping to analyse; the name of the poet, Hafiz, Hali, Iqbal, was sufficient guarantee. India-a hundred Indias-whispered outside beneath the indifferent moon, but for the time India seemed one and their own, and they regained their departed greatness by hearing its departure lamented, they felt young again because reminded that youth must fly."
Standard
Customized
More
"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information
"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason
"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."
Family
"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."
Man
"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life."
Life
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."
Freedom
"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."
Man
"The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her."
Society
"History develops, art stands still."
Art
bottom of page