“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg 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
Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine… — James A. McDougall 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
I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school… — Mary Oliver 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
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't… — Clive James Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One… — Anonymous 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
Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful,… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. — John Keats Copy Share Image
As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
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