I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden,… — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
“when you're a poet you can dish out whatever's on your mind and you don't have to apologize for it” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you,… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“That's a poet.' 'I thought you said it was a bo-at.' 'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?' 'Why, a… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I never have restricted myself into a frame of a particular technique. My techniques are determined simultaneously along with the subjects of… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
“Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. — Rufus Wilmot Griswold Copy Share Image
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
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