I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual… — James Geary Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food. — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is poetry. To fall in love with a person is like understanding a deep, moving poem. Noticing every little detail. To… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
“There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat,… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places;… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty 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
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
“Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- ) — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an… — Grace Zabriskie Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I was born not to be a poet myself, but to be the instrument of the very poet that has always been… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a… — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Copy Share Image
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every… — Marc-Andre Fleury Copy Share Image
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady… — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
