Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
“What is Poetry (My Sonnet, My Rules) Any gargoyle can google the definition of a sonnet, Any robot can write and rhyme… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets,… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
“Time is the real emperor and there is no space for any pride since time flies and blows away anything.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.” — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
The nearest we approach God ...is as creative beings. The poet, by echoing the primary imagination, recreates. Through his work he forces… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“I spent all night weaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautiful when you wear my light.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old. — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
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