It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“The one she needed most kept aloof, for she was, to hear her talk, changing her selves as quickly as she drove… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a… — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital… — Samuel McChord Crothers Copy Share Image
Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery Copy Share Image
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
