I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.” — Morgan Dragonwillow Copy Share Image
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“You have that faraway look in your eyes that makes me want to pull you into my dreams, bring you to your… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet,… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“I know this much, is all," Franny said. "If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. — Rufus Wilmot Griswold Copy Share Image
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
