I write first drafts with only the good angel on my shoulder, the voice that approves of everything I write. This voice… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking…capable of pity and laughter..appreciative… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Kau hadir ketika malam hampir memeluk senja Bersama bingkisan yang sudah seringkali aku dengar Tetapi nafasmu berbeza Lagu yang kau dendangkan semerdu… — AD Rahman Ahmad Copy Share Image
“THE SCRIBE Under the wings Of the feathered Goddess And in the middle Of the three dancing women, The scribe comes alive… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously.… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse… it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom,… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
