I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The deep-feeling poet is he who, while doing his works, abandons the body, gets inspired by the words of the heart and… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, and inspirational--a south wind and not an east… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“What was it Like?" "What was what like?" he said, although he knew. "Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something.… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne, Poets who wrote great poems, one by one, And spaced by many years, each line an… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets. — William Jones Copy Share Image
Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“I am thinking of poets who haven't written well in years but who rubbed against the sun twenty years ago-- Aren't they… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
When I used to listen to the poets in other languages and the kind of appreciation they received, I wanted to be… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“Most poems I’ve seen are about love or sex or the stars. You poets are obsessed with stars. Falling stars. Shooting stars.… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share. ” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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