A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Poems is what could keep us happy, different words, different poets, different paths.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds. — John Anderson Copy Share Image
“We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything.” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
.. but all of a sudden they’re poets, right, like that’s all it takes — being in love. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then,… — David McFadden Copy Share Image
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“You don’t sound like a scientist, you sound like a poet.” Rey smiled, “Can I be both?” But you’d rather be a… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Poets write magistic and compelling words on paper. But authors, they write magistic and compelling words on souls.” — Kayla.M.f Copy Share Image
“For in him we live and move and have our being.’As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.” — Acts 17:28 Copy Share Image
Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. — Horace Copy Share Image
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