“Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown Copy Share Image
“And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art” — Percy Shelley Copy Share Image
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry.… — Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side Copy Share Image
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Poets, as a class, are business men. Shakespeare describes the poet's eye as rolling in a fine frenzy from heaven to earth,… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise everything and everyone… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be… — Noor Hindi Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I is for immortality, which for some poets is a necessary compensation. Presumably miserable in this life, they will be remembered when… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary” — Williams Robin Professor Keating Copy Share Image
Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
