... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
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
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The aim I have set before me in this book is to give back to English readers the understanding of and delight… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it… — Susanna Kaysen 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
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
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
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
Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending… — Camille Paglia 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
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a man named Jack Gilbert, who was not related to me—unfortunately for me. Jack Gilbert was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
“The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958: A GREAT POET died last week in Lancieux, France, at… — Robert Service 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
“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
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
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is… — Lytton Strachey 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
The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
