A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps,… — Ridgely Torrence Copy Share Image
The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ...… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
“You’re speaking volumes, my friend, and tonight we’re doing short poems only.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
