The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier,… — Jo Dee Messina Copy Share Image
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
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