The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural. — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
