The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I don't even think any stimulants really help writing. You talk to most guys and they say, "Hey. I wrote this." And… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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