I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on?… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Poet Wrestling with Words Some are clouds, mist, vapor Some are diaries written with tears Some appear like dew--a Friend in Time… — Theresa Rough PhD Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift… — Pindar Copy Share Image
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom. — Plato Copy Share Image
Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
