For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses.… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me- Search me not in my ashes, In my… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work. — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on… — Elizabeth Cunningham Copy Share Image
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and… — Toi Derricotte 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
The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts. — Rosa Campbell Praed Copy Share Image
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate; And morning -dreams, as poets tell, are true, Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death's dark gate,… — Michael Bruce Copy Share Image
When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
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