What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“I know this much, is all," Franny said. "If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
