To the question always asked, 'why do you write?' the response of the poet will always be the briefest 'In order to… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Rupi Kaur is an author and poet who posts the most beautiful, thought-provoking excerpts on her Instagram. — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful;… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“It's funny how fast a book goes, but how slow the wait appears. the book may end, but the mind still thinks...waiting… — Nandanie Phalgoo Copy Share Image
Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“...The dog (the poet) is on top of a locomotive,”… “He’s got a box full of track, and he’s frenetically laying down… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- ) — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an… — Grace Zabriskie Copy Share Image
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady… — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
![“I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.” quote by Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/01d/edward-albee-1684_littles_i-was-twenty-nine-years-old-and-i-wasn-t_1642881.png)
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