The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out… — Plato Copy Share Image
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories.… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I remember, in fifth grade, doing a report on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as a rap. It was just an easy… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet:… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought,… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“And the poet says that by starlight You come seeking, in the night, the flowers that you picked And that he has… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray… — Wolfgang Borchert Copy Share Image
Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I want people to see the beauty of that condition through the eyes of the characters. In doing that, they can allow… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
