For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide.… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the… — Paul Elie Copy Share Image
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about… — Fred Bodsworth Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.' — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
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