...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“most of these American poets pushing and hustling their talents playing at greatness. poet (?): that word needs re- defining. when I… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The key to a wonderful life Is to never stop wandering into wonder. Because to live a predictable life, Only fills a… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The Poet" His teeth splayed in a way he'd notice and pity in his closest enemies or friends. Youth held his eye;… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make… — Bob Dylan 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
The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as… — Orison Swett Marden 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
Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U.S., and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are… — Robert Hass 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
If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together,… — Momus Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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