At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James Copy Share Image
“O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare… — Patrick Rothfuss 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
“O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the… — Frank Lloyd Wright 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
When my father got the letter from Satyajit Ray saying I could work with him, I had to give up 'Saat Hindustani.'… — Tinnu Anand Copy Share Image
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry. — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
