For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift… — Pindar Copy Share Image
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been… — James Payn Copy Share Image
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild-deer, and… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well… — Gauguin Copy Share Image
There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going.… — John Green Copy Share Image
