Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet:… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been… — Socrates Copy Share Image
When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned… — Alanis Morissette 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
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler 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
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
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil,… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee,… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key 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
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person...… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
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