The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
With 'Peradam', the nature of the project was such that it was deeply immersed in spiritual concepts in India and is based… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
“Poets talk about “spots of time,” but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice… — Shabana Azmi 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
I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life… — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet. — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
