“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“Time is the real emperor and there is no space for any pride since time flies and blows away anything.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping. — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Grand Sky/Grand Prairie Both harbor the vastness of space. One holds the space Of starlight, thunder snow, rock and icy comets, scrolls… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau 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
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo,… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others… — Horace 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
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“[The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets! — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
“A poet is intensely in love with live and passionately wants to express his or her experience with love and beauty.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
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