Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making. — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time. — No I.D Copy Share Image
Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier,… — Jo Dee Messina Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la… — Pierre Reverdy Copy Share Image
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets. — William Jones Copy Share Image
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets! — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
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