“Where even ravi (the sun) cannot reach, there will go a kavi (poet)." - Vimalananda” — Robert E. Svoboda Copy Share Image
People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. — Lotte Lehmann Copy Share Image
My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets,… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
