Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in… — Socrates 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
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I see the life with your sight, O" the love; you're my light.” — Debasish Mridha M.D Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank. — Steven T. Katz Copy Share Image
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
