I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big.' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I was a happy young woman and I just happened to write poetry. I wasn’t trying to get anywhere, I was where… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
