From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.” — David J Delaney Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. — John Keble Copy Share Image
The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all -… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as… — Stephen Burt 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
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton 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
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her;… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers,… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? — Sir John Davies 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
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
