Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. — William Temple Copy Share Image
The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies.… — Laurel Burch Copy Share Image
A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text,… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also… — Plato Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
