Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns.… — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad Shāmlu was… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he… — Heinrich Heine 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
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“If I woke up one morning and realized that all I ever was going to be was a business man, I'd probably… — Harley King Copy Share Image
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
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