The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his… — Subramanya Bharathi Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
