The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part. — William Wetmore Story Copy Share Image
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic. — Vicki Lewis Thompson Copy Share Image
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob. — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all… — George Sand Copy Share Image
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles?… — Plato Copy Share Image
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.” — James Dickey Copy Share Image
It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls. — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
