We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result. — Mick McCarthy Copy Share Image
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his… — Subramanya Bharathi Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity. — Peter Altenberg Copy Share Image
The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I wanted him to be a poet. I wanted him to adventure out into the world and learn its ways, not losing… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“What're you reading?" "Gertrude Stein." I shook my head. I'd never heard of her. "The poet?" he asked. "You know, 'A rose… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
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