What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious… — William James Copy Share Image
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau 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
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“That's a poet.' 'I thought you said it was a bo-at.' 'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?' 'Why, a… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point… — Umberto Eco 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
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
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
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
The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had… — Anais Nin 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
