“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon,… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations! — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important?… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“He lives forever in his words, in his poems, and in his stories. An inspiration to many writers and poets all around… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“You must seduce poetry with the heart of your words before she'll sprinkle you with the magic of hers.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
