“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. — William Temple Copy Share Image
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A great poet can have the role of spiritual head of a nation.A great ruler is the spiritual head of a nation,… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form… — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did.… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I want young children to savor and enjoy Tagore like I did since I was a child. He was too great a… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“But I'm a woman, and as the great poet so cleverly wrote, hell hath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
