“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.” — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum… — David Amram Copy Share Image
Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is… — Eamon Grennan Copy Share Image
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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