“our love like stepping on to a plane sitting down in a car walking on unknown land will either take us to… — scott mcgoldrick Copy Share Image
I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind. — Christina Aguilera 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
I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets. — Z'EV Copy Share Image
To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“You are my reality, fantasy, daydream, fairytale, music, more than the princess in Cinderella; you are much more than a traditional myth.” — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum… — David Amram Copy Share Image
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,… — Horace Copy Share Image
I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I'm a struggling poet. I've never shown my work to anyone. I write it all for myself and I'm not interested in… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be… — Alysia Harris Copy Share Image
“The poet is individual—he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image