To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring." — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'... Page 100.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Tonight, I won't dream, because nobody has held me and no hands have strayed and even though I'm drunk with love, my… — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
“When the full-grown poet came, Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the… — Paul Elie Copy Share Image
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The Soul of a Warrior. Cries out for Battle. The Soul of a Poet, Screams out for Love. I stand between them,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. — Bono Copy Share Image
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities. — Mary Timony Copy Share Image
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills… — David Walton Copy Share Image
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
![“I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need…” quote by Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/143/ray-bradbury-75_enough_i-don-t-like-realism-we-already-know-the_239875.jpg)
