Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“If I cannot fix your broken heart can I put mine in its place, because these stars are not enough, and all… — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry -… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I did it the hard way Many of the big dreams I dreamt, I dreamt, when I met a failed attempt. Life… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things. — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But, at the end of the day, if you ever think you were wrong about it all, I'm here where I have… — Athena Violante Copy Share Image
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.' — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“now i can safely claim the pages within these walls are more than my allies; they are my own” — Hanna Abi Akl Copy Share Image
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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