“A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don’t mean a damn thing.” — José Gouveia Copy Share Image
Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox. — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth. — Hafez Copy Share Image
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a… — Plato Copy Share Image
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem. — Jaime Gil de Biedma Copy Share Image
The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
