Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet. — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One may never get to know how fast the time travels till the one gets in that position to race against the… — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his… — William Watson Copy Share Image
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“Next, there was a poet turned to science, and a second poet, and another. And him, the thick turned thin, a starling… — Tina May Hall Copy Share Image
“It’s no game. Believe me, she is a woman of far greater complexity than you—or anyone—realize. The secrets inside her mind are… — Fumiko Enchi 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
“The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
“I'll always be the yearning poet bleeding ink chasing stars drunk on dreams.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.” — Jaime Gil de Biedma Copy Share Image
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
