Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected” — James Wright Copy Share Image
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
“I must find you. So I travel to the depths of hell and conquer perverse monsters and repulsive demons and the deceitful… — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"-a moment that had been buried beneath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do not think about failure. Remember that even stars fall sometimes, and when they do people wish on them.” — Maddie Godfrey Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s,… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like,… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“When I was a Poet Everything was Possible there wasn't Anything that wasn't Poetry” — David Meltzer Copy Share Image
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.” — T.S Eliot Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
