The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet,… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Just enough angry, just enough indignant, just enough the-world-will-never-know-how-ridiculously-awesome-I-am. Just enough poet.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective. — Roddy Woomble Copy Share Image
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry.… — Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side Copy Share Image
Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?” — Plato Copy Share Image
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I let my thoughts bare little feet ramble on the narrow cobblestone alleys, hoping they find their way out of the petite… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
“When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart” — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A writer, an author or a poet does not write because of a public or herself. She lives by a great youth.” — Petra Hermans Copy Share Image
“If we learn to love someone for their imperfections that reflect our own, we eventually appreciate the thought that even the most… — Nicola An Copy Share Image
a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
