The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened. — Lester Cole Copy Share Image
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me… If I must not, because of my sex,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader?… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless… — Plato Copy Share Image
Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles?… — Plato Copy Share Image
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank. — Steven T. Katz Copy Share Image
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“I see the life with your sight, O" the love; you're my light.” — Debasish Mridha M.D Copy Share Image
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
