I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I… — Drake Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter… — Donovan Copy Share Image
And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The ground will never complain how much weight you add on it, how much you dig it and how much you grow… — Yando Wanii Nimbo Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His. — Socrates Copy Share Image
O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
