All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet. — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to… — Horace Copy Share Image
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic,… — Khalil Copy Share Image
“we want it visible to show when even the most visible joy will reveal itself only when we have transformed it within.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness,… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Love withers but never dies. Its tendrils are embedded on fecund soil awaiting the nourishing spring to make it sprout once more.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Her thoughts became mysteriously tightened and strung up as if a piano tuner had put his key in her back and stretched… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
