I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
It was a little harder when I first went to Egypt when I was 18 years old and being a white woman… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate; And morning -dreams, as poets tell, are true, Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death's dark gate,… — Michael Bruce Copy Share Image
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You don't need to be deep in order to be called intellectual. You need to create connectivity with the people by using… — Alon Calinao Dy Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." -… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance… — Nick Hornby 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
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it… — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“I breathe in... The sights and smells Of this city I’ve come to know... So well I gaze... Across the turquoise ocean… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and,… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“ I wish I were a poet. I've never confessed that to anyone, and I'm confessing it to you, because you've given… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
![“the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18e/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic_93688.jpg)
![“I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background…” quote by John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ccb/john-lennon-322_age_i-think-the-music-reflects-the-state-tha_1323373.jpg)
