The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.” — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man,… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
