Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose… — Eavan Boland 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
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to… — David Antin Copy Share Image
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life.… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds,… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since… — David Toop Copy Share Image
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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