God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the… — Horace Copy Share Image
Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young… — Vincent Harding Copy Share Image
The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation… The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you, it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know, your… — Tanzy Sayadi Copy Share Image
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational… — Billy Collins 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
“...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
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