I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think… — Antjie Krog Copy Share Image
The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but… — Céline Sciamma Copy Share Image
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady… — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write first drafts with only the good angel on my shoulder, the voice that approves of everything I write. This voice… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Steve Allen was on Johnny Carson one time - I looked for it, but I couldn't find it - and he read… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
