The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The eye of the poet is that of a bird and bug, heart of leaves, or roads. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“They are so beautiful: your words" she told me. And I said "No, you are!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“It was a lot less pleasant than travel via a discorporated poet.” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was… — Lesley Ann Warren Copy Share Image
The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.” — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
“It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better. — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
