“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“A great poet from ancient times put it this way: Love is the beauty of the soul.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I want young children to savor and enjoy Tagore like I did since I was a child. He was too great a… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did.… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form… — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“But I'm a woman, and as the great poet so cleverly wrote, hell hath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references. — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. — Kenneth Branagh 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
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
