Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry. — Anonymous 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
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower.… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“UNDIVIDED I am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
