a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed. — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, /… — Sappho Copy Share Image
'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor. — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If we learn to love someone for their imperfections that reflect our own, we eventually appreciate the thought that even the most… — Nicola An Copy Share Image
a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“A writer, an author or a poet does not write because of a public or herself. She lives by a great youth.” — Petra Hermans Copy Share Image
Creativity has three layers; the ultimate is the mystic: he lives in a climate of creativity. The poet, once in a while,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. — Horace Copy Share Image
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
“Destiny never defames herself but when she lets an excellent poet die.” — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet. — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
