“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael,… — Mitchell Zuckoff 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
“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
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
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
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
“Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary” — Williams Robin Professor Keating Copy Share Image
“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
