We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“You call me at 12am or 3am I will pick up your call. Once I make a commitment, I don't go back!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael,… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet. — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
