Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have… — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Copy Share Image
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in… — Socrates Copy Share Image
[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“What is Poetry (My Sonnet, My Rules) Any gargoyle can google the definition of a sonnet, Any robot can write and rhyme… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a… — Plato Copy Share Image
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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