Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Paul Celan On Poetry
Paul Celan (November 23, 1920 – April 20, 1970) A poem, as manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the — not always greatly hopeful — belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense, too, …
TH White On Learning
T.H. White (May 29, 1906–January 17, 1964) The best thing for being sad… is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may …
Barack Obama On Equality
Barack Obama (August 04 1961 -) We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths –- that all of us are created equal –- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, …
Elif Shafak On Women Writers
Elif Shafak (October 25, 1971 -) I’d definitely say read more women. Read women writers, women journalists, women poets, women academics. And when I say women, I mean women of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds: Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, Jewish, Greek. Turkey is a country of collective amnesia. Read those writers who bear witness to the …
André Aciman On Beauty
André Aciman (January 02, 1951 -) Under the spell of beauty, we experience a rare condition called plenitude, where we want for nothing.
Rachel Carson On The Mysterious
Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907–April 14, 1964) A large part of my life has been concerned with some of the beauties and mysteries of this earth about us, and with the even greater mysteries of the life that inhabits it. No one can dwell long among such subjects without thinking rather deep thoughts, without asking …
