“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere… — Horace Copy Share Image
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“i want to be in love with you the same way i am in love with the moon with the light shining… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It reminds me of poets, before all this—how the sensitive souls who submitted their work to literary journals outnumbered those who read… — Adrian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know… — Henry Blake Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives… — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Present-day worthy poets’ and writers’ writings and books should be added to the syllabus and studied in the schools, colleges and universities… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting andthen tie it up again, but differently. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.” — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Poets love me. They embrace me. Actually, I don't really know many poets. But I used to go to a lot of… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“This is a mere matter of the moment. I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“Take me back to those days, when you knew of my love, yet liked me nonetheless, and when I smiled at you,… — C. Madan Copy Share Image
I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“If a nation does not care for its past it does not care for its future; and it if does not care… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent heart” — Jeffrey Moore Copy Share Image
“it was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
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