It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls. — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The eye of the poet is that of a bird and bug, heart of leaves, or roads. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image… — Enya Copy Share Image
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal. — Walther von der Vogelweide Copy Share Image
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
