Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in?… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him! — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The poet must be in the right, not only in his esthetic, but in his scientific point of view,” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something… — emil cioran Copy Share Image
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
I think tension between the intimate and the vast is at the heart of every poem by any poet, though of course… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“I see the life with your sight, O" the love; you're my light.” — Debasish Mridha M.D Copy Share Image
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
“I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
