for sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the… — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
