Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Not the nature of man, Nor gods lordship, Separation from someone made me a Poet. — Daniyalbutt Copy Share Image
“A smile, like the poet's muse, Inspires passion in the lover's heart” — Alex Z. Moores Copy Share Image
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.” — César Vallejo 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
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The poet is afraid to make any place feel too much like home because then she might have to stop running.” — Trista Mateer Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious… — William James Copy Share Image
It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination. — Cardinalde Bernis Copy Share Image
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“i am simply the poet. the poem is the one that can change your life. – medium” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
