Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
The real question should be: what makes a good political poem? The possible answers to that question are both obvious and yet… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — Bob Dylan 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
I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
