I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually.… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother, and your… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men;… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me… If I must not, because of my sex,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless… — Plato Copy Share Image
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader?… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I promised her that I would never kiss and tell, but I have to tell someone about my dreams and fairytales. So… — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The poet is a shaman of words & sounds, praying linguistically over each while blessing the poetic whole.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“What poet was it who wrote there's no pain worse than the pain of a broken heart? Sentimental shit. He should have… — joe abercrombie Copy Share Image
I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"-a moment that had been buried beneath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do not think about failure. Remember that even stars fall sometimes, and when they do people wish on them.” — Maddie Godfrey Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
