Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me. — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of… — Democritus Copy Share Image
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Let me meet Poet, too, but mainly Shadow. The guy who paints in the dark. Paints birds trapped on brick walls and… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
“Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. — Oscar Wilde 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
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image… — Enya Copy Share Image
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal. — Walther von der Vogelweide Copy Share Image
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
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