Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
“...a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is… — Eamon Grennan Copy Share Image
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." -… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
“You call me at 12am or 3am I will pick up your call. Once I make a commitment, I don't go back!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“Just about everyone has the heart of a poet inside them, yet sometimes you need to break through the rib cage to… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
