The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a… — Toshiko Takaezu Copy Share Image
Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets,… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they… — Plato Copy Share Image
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have… — Thomas MacDonagh Copy Share Image
'A Death in the Gunj' is set in 1979 and we had to mute a joke that referred to Indira Gandhi. The… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form… — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
