If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Sport in itself has this power. If you are a poet or a singer, people gravitate. I may not be in the… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth... — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet. — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to… — Horace Copy Share Image
