The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Many women have tried to compare to you, but they are only flawed imitations. You deserve the worlds admiration.” — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
“Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.” — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
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