You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however,… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in… — Ovid 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 is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The job of the poet—which is somewhat quixotic or Sisyphean—is to express things that one may have sensed or felt but never… — Paul S. Atkins Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
The 500 years following the fall of the Western Roman Empire were dubbed by the poet Petrarch 'dark.' Although the 14th-century Italian… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion… — William H. Hunt Copy Share Image
If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I'm a poet. My business? Writing. How do I live? I live. In my happy poverty I squander like… — Rodolfo La Bohmé Copy Share Image
Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Somewhere deep down in my heart, there's a poet, and a liar. They are juxtaposed more than the sun and the moon,… — SayWeCanFly Copy Share Image
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
See how weak prose is… Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Don't say it doesn't make sense then tell me you feel your spine curve and chill humps rise all over your skin.… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
“As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
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