Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God;… — Marcus Aurelius 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
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
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
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
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
[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
She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“I've always said that you know you're a poet when you type an em dash and you hit the delete button, and… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard… — Cid Corman Copy Share Image
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It should be emphasized that the balagtasan also served a higher social and political function. More than mere entertainment, it enhanced the… — Virgilio S. Almario Copy Share Image
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept… — Kamand Kojouri 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
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
![“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)
![“originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.” quote by Randall Jarrell](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/aa8/randall-jarrell-3811_aim_originality-is-everyone-s-aim-and-novel_641026.png)
