Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen. They release the ink that flows from within their heart. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s,… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the rain-drops fall… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“So many times in a single day we glimpse a view beyond the apparent. Write those moments down. They might not speak… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“I must have wanton Poets, pleasant wits, Musitians, that with touching of a string May draw the pliant king which way I… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom. — Plato Copy Share Image
