The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is hard to compare cultures without overgeneralizing, but I think a lot of American poetry has an assertiveness - an upbeat… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever.… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“What property is left to dreamers when every idea has been tamed and conquered? What about the poet who dreams of embracing… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“TYRONE [ Stares at him -- impressed. ] Yes, there's the makings of a poet in you all right. [ Then protesting… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications.… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
If I was an artist, you would be my picture! If I was a poet, you would be my inspiration! If I… — Ali Bassam Copy Share Image
Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“You shall not twist my bones into a star’s shape, nor plant my hair as roots for the dreams of the living;… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
![“This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bd5/anonymous-1_creation_this-act-creation-as-it-is-for-god-must_835704.jpg)
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