There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do. — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Without the wetness of your love, the fragrance of your water, or the trickling sounds of your voice ― I shall always… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them.… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
