In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music.… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I am only a fighter, in the form of a writer, in the form of a poet, potency in the mic. — Wale Copy Share Image
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration. — Ramsay MacDonald Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems. — Henri Cole Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his… — Subramanya Bharathi Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I was a happy young woman and I just happened to write poetry. I wasn’t trying to get anywhere, I was where… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez Copy Share Image
the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The pain broke through the skin, dismantled her pores, and ate away at everything that was once strong. She was laid bare… — J. Autherine Copy Share Image
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose. — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
