The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity. — Peter Altenberg Copy Share Image
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“If you can't tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I'm saying "hoe" or "bitch" I… — Scott McGoldrick Copy Share Image
I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like ‘many are gone, and those that live are bad’.12” — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“(1)BEING A POET is like opening a car door & exposing yourself. (2)BEING A GOOD POET is like opening the door &… — Chocolate Waters Copy Share Image
As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret. — Steven Sater Copy Share Image
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour… — Edward Dowden Copy Share Image
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“when you're a poet you can dish out whatever's on your mind and you don't have to apologize for it” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
“There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel. — Andre Soltner Copy Share Image
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