Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry. — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
“Tužna projekcija života za pjesnika je primamljivija od samog života.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.” — Major Jackson Copy Share Image
There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. — Eli Khamarov Copy Share Image
Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications.… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family,… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“All writers recognize this surge of striking; in its energies the objects of the world are made new, alchemized by their passage… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts;… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children… — Assia Djebar Copy Share Image
