Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact,… — X. J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
“He hoped and feared,' continued Solon, in a low. mournful voice; 'but at times he was very miserable, because he did not… — Fitz James O'Brien Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets. — William Jones Copy Share Image
“Poetry lets me pour out my various emotions even the suppressed ones we didn't know exist inside us' til the moment you… — Elizabeth E. Castillo 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
Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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