I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by… — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared… — Michael Tierra 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
“Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless. Three… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I went to Havana, and I was like, "Wow, there's culture everywhere!" That was one thing that I did notice when I… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
The Greek tragic mask is one of my main metaphors for the role of the poet. The eyes of the tragic mask… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I woke up this morning exhausted from hiding the me of me. So I stand here confiding there's more to Devon than… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Go get your gun because God won't show. He sent a poet instead. The Don Quixote of the ICU. Quite impressive for… — Keith Buckley Copy Share Image
The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
![“The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.” quote by Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/370/isadora-duncan-7255_art_the-noblest-art-is-the-nude-this-truth-i_917024.jpg)
![“[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.” quote by Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/27b/nikki-giovanni-1757_add_to-become-a-poet-the-most-important-thin_189198.png)
