It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver 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
The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't… — Clive James Copy Share Image
It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron.… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." -… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was… — Matthew Zapruder 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
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
![“originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.” quote by Randall Jarrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa8/randall-jarrell-3811_aim_originality-is-everyone-s-aim-and-novel_641026.jpg)
![“[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.” quote by Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a5d/adrienne-rich-803_conscious_the-poet-is-endowed-to-speak-for-those-w_270364.jpg)
![“Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]” quote by Lucretius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/59a/lucretius-1632_cease_nay-the-greatest-wits-and-poets-too-ceas_1801162.jpg)
