The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“am born a poet, of a low class without doubt yet a poet. This is my nature and vocation”),” — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass,… — Jacob Grimm Copy Share Image
I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think it is our job as poets to refuse the terms that society so often sets for usefulness. That, for instance,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work… — John Hollander Copy Share Image
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that.… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. — Max Jacob Copy Share Image
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for. — Martial Copy Share Image
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry]… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to… — David Antin Copy Share Image
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in… — Plato Copy Share Image
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