I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if… — Martial Copy Share Image
By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Medicinal Spirit, Inside Mirror Therapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels, No one knows how to upscale another,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that… — Tim Pratt Copy Share Image
“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
“If you can't tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I'm saying "hoe" or "bitch" I… — Scott McGoldrick Copy Share Image
“A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“I see the life with your sight, O" the love; you're my light.” — Debasish Mridha M.D Copy Share Image
Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,'… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than… — Harry Chapin 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
