I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty? — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other… — John Keats Copy Share Image
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.” — Minton Sparks Copy Share Image
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“If Roberts had been a poet or a painter or a musician; we might have had a masterpiece. As he was neither:… — arthur machen Copy Share Image
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. — Catullus Copy Share Image
I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“Poetry by its very nature is subversive . . . It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
“Poet To mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds. For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that… — Tim Pratt Copy Share Image
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
