These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic,… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm Dominique Crenn. I'm a chef, entrepreneur, artist, poet, human being. I have three restaurants in San Francisco: Atelier Crenn, Bar Crenn… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
