It wasn't until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym. — Wamiqa Gabbi Copy Share Image
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital… — Samuel McChord Crothers Copy Share Image
“For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that… — Archibald Hill Copy Share Image
Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had… — George Polya Copy Share Image
The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got… — William Empson Copy Share Image
The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace?” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Blame the poets. It’s easier to stir people to rebellion if they think they’re on the side of a demigod or some… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
