“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“[The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays,… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers,… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her;… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always been a poet. My dad went to Lincoln University with Gil-Scott Heron, so I came out of the womb listening… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze...,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves! — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
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