There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion… — William H. Hunt Copy Share Image
If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I'm a poet. My business? Writing. How do I live? I live. In my happy poverty I squander like… — Rodolfo La Bohmé Copy Share Image
Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Somewhere deep down in my heart, there's a poet, and a liar. They are juxtaposed more than the sun and the moon,… — SayWeCanFly Copy Share Image
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
Social media is alluring, tempting, frustrating, etc. We mistake our interactions in social media as community, but is community possible when you… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however,… — Novalis Copy Share Image
You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been… — Richard Blanco 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 have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The job of the poet—which is somewhat quixotic or Sisyphean—is to express things that one may have sensed or felt but never… — Paul S. Atkins Copy Share Image
The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds,… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
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