Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered To me before, Suddenly ceased To… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Break out to go out: The birds dare to break the egg shell It does so in order to get out of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Dust dances in the light like tiny ghosts of stories. I open a yellowed page— your handwriting from another lifetime. The shopkeeper… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's… — William Everson 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
“If I woke up one morning and realized that all I ever was going to be was a business man, I'd probably… — Harley King Copy Share Image
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at… — David Markson Copy Share Image
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I should’ve probably warned you: once you end a relationship with an artist, you are perpetually reminded of them. They have now… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
