The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Fapt este ca termenul „profet”, caruia epocile ulterioare i-au atribuit un nou sens, era cuvantul biblic penru „poet”, iar cuvantul a „profeti”… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of… — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob. — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. — Dudley Moore Copy Share Image
“May I discard the outer cover of time from the layers of poetry by immersing the poet in its entirety within me” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“Grand Sky/Grand Prairie Both harbor the vastness of space. One holds the space Of starlight, thunder snow, rock and icy comets, scrolls… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would… — Myrtle Reed 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
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his… — William Watson Copy Share Image
A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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