“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.” — Morgan Dragonwillow Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries. — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject,… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
“Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.” — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
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