Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out… — Plato Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
“Tonight, I won't dream, because nobody has held me and no hands have strayed and even though I'm drunk with love, my… — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. — Catullus Copy Share Image
To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
