To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“She had come to think of the poet as song-maker, not as scholar with her head” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. — John Keble Copy Share Image
Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don’t mean a damn thing.” — José Gouveia Copy Share Image
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for. — Martial Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
