“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarised to men, shall be ready to put on,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Seeing the God statement Suppose the statement Blessed Are the pure in heart, for they shall see God were placed like a… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry;… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text,… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“Do you know what people do when they read poetry? They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s… — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name,… — Jonas Hallgrimsson Copy Share Image
What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“I am the contrast. I am forever the crack in the window that lets the winter in. I am forever the moment… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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