At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
“If you would understand a people, look at them through the eyes of the poet, the musician and the artist.” — Cynthia Pearl Maus Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet. — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People… — Drake Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.” — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What is it you Frenchies say? Tou-che? You see, I'm a bit of a poet and you did not know it, what?” — The Scarlet Pimpernel Copy Share Image
“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know… — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
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