Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Her legacy was that she loved with all she had, whether you deserved it or not.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician? — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
“Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent- a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is… — The Hakawati Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing. — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
