For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh.… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking…capable of pity and laughter..appreciative… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do. — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
