If you look at the Directory of American Poets and Writers, you know there are hundreds of poets in New York City.… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class… — Edward Hirsch 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
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form… — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
The Greek tragic mask is one of my main metaphors for the role of the poet. The eyes of the tragic mask… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Every revolutionary poet or lyricist has been criticised for something. If you come up with something new, there will always be people… — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
“Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet. — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless… — Plato Copy Share Image
When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
My father was a fun guy and a good poet and singer, had friends in the film industry and was so generous… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
