There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them.… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have… — Plato Copy Share Image
I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and… — Don Blanding Copy Share Image
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“I should’ve probably warned you: once you end a relationship with an artist, you are perpetually reminded of them. They have now… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the… — Naeem Murr Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can… — Peter Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and… — Robert Underwood Johnson Copy Share Image
[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
![“The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/118/william-faulkner-306_always-wrong_the-poets-are-wrong-of-course-but-then-p_3100133.png)
![“He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b32/william-faulkner-306_all-things_he-the-writer-must-teach-himself-that-th_1547279.jpg)
![“[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.” quote by Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a5d/adrienne-rich-803_conscious_the-poet-is-endowed-to-speak-for-those-w_270364.png)
