What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Your mind will discern in the moments of clarity. In the darkness and the labyrinth of your path there lies a direction… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream… — Wendy Rose Copy Share Image
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a poet, you don't have to be a politician or be in the White House to make… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
If you're just starting off as an artist, steal as much inspiration from everything you like, as much as you can. Take… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
“Autopsychography The poet is a man who feigns And feigns so thoroughly, at last He manages to feign as pain The pain… — FERNANDO PESSOA Copy Share Image
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
