Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities. — Mary Timony Copy Share Image
While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. — Carl Sandburg 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
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men;… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
“Poets talk about “spots of time,” but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead.… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films,… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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