“I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. — Horace Copy Share Image
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.” — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Break out to go out: The birds dare to break the egg shell It does so in order to get out of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy… — Champfleury Copy Share Image
The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us… — Philip Sherrard Copy Share Image
I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of… — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
“Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?” — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the… — Anne Hebert Copy Share Image
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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