Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar,… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal. — Walther von der Vogelweide Copy Share Image
The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it… — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Songs of myself I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
