I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets! — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall… — Viola Meynell Copy Share Image
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their… — Homer Copy Share Image
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
