And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Social media is alluring, tempting, frustrating, etc. We mistake our interactions in social media as community, but is community possible when you… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember… — Anonymous 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
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did.… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit. These are the things all the great philosophers just won’t tell you flat out about… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you’re as blind as a mole, you’re a deplorable poet, and frankly,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
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