I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are… — John Muir Copy Share Image
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“What property is left to dreamers when every idea has been tamed and conquered? What about the poet who dreams of embracing… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
“TYRONE [ Stares at him -- impressed. ] Yes, there's the makings of a poet in you all right. [ Then protesting… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications.… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without… — Augustine Birrell 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
If I was an artist, you would be my picture! If I was a poet, you would be my inspiration! If I… — Ali Bassam Copy Share Image
“...Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic, but let each man bear his shield straight toward… — Tyrtaeus Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of… — Clarence Major 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
I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come… — Gabriele d'Annunzio Copy Share Image
It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
![“This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd5/anonymous-1_creation_this-act-creation-as-it-is-for-god-must_835704.jpg)
![“TYRONE [ Stares at him -- impressed. ] Yes, there's the makings of a poet in you all right. [ Then protesting uneasily ] But that's morbid craziness about not being wanted and loving death. EDMUND [ Sardonically ] The makings of a poet. No, I'm afraid I'm like the guy who is always panhandling for…” quote by Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b56/eugene-o-neill-4173_live-well_tyrone-stares-at-him-impressed-yes-there_1924663.jpg)
