A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity. — Peter Altenberg Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.” — Melody Lee 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
All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
