Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Seeing the God statement Suppose the statement Blessed Are the pure in heart, for they shall see God were placed like a… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it… — Khalil Copy Share Image
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
