love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything. — Allison Hedge Coke Copy Share Image
I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.” — Minton Sparks Copy Share Image
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“If Roberts had been a poet or a painter or a musician; we might have had a masterpiece. As he was neither:… — arthur machen Copy Share Image
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts,… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers. — Alan Bold Copy Share Image
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. — Alphonse Daudet Copy Share Image
“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
