It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned in some way to be a poet. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
