God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving. — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
With 'Peradam', the nature of the project was such that it was deeply immersed in spiritual concepts in India and is based… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
“Her legacy was that she loved with all she had, whether you deserved it or not.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s,… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
