“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
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 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
This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps… — Patrick Rothfuss 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
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,… — William Knox Copy Share Image
“In the republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the… — Martxedn Espada 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
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
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
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
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
“Few pay attention to the histories and the root pictures words can release. These neglected qualities are there, however, and the poets… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
“I don’t trust masters who can’t be down-to-earth. For me they’re like those eccentric poets who can’t write like everybody else. I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a… — Plato Copy Share Image
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
