Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their… — Homer Copy Share Image
The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be?… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man,… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.” — Hafiz Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare. Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here — Eminem Copy Share Image
A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she… — John Zakour Copy Share Image
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“...a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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