Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me… If I must not, because of my sex,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about… — Fred Bodsworth Copy Share Image
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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