For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers… — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they… — Plato Copy Share Image
“THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless. Three… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
“A life lived outside of one's giftedness is a complete and utter travesty. It deprives the world of the beauty we each… — Shirley Houston Copy Share Image
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Tom prilikom Kafka mi reče: "Vi opisujete pesnika kao nekog čudesno velikog čoveka čije noge su na zemlji dok mu glava nestaje… — Gustav Janouch Copy Share Image
Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if… — Wallace Stevens 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
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The pain broke through the skin, dismantled her pores, and ate away at everything that was once strong. She was laid bare… — J. Autherine Copy Share Image
I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have… — John Keats Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
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