Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love,… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that… — Archibald Hill Copy Share Image
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body? — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
