“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.” — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
“I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
“You'll find magic everywhere, even in dark, dusty corners, if you stop searching with your limited human eyes and instead feel with… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse,… — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a… — Alexander Pope 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
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
“I see the life with your sight, O" the love; you're my light.” — Debasish Mridha M.D Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank. — Steven T. Katz Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
