“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Next, there was a poet turned to science, and a second poet, and another. And him, the thick turned thin, a starling… — Tina May Hall Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Wandering aimlessly, I love the thrill of unknown paths. Am I a nomad? Am I a wanderer? May be I am a… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they — John Keats Copy Share Image
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result. — Mick McCarthy Copy Share Image
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. — Don Blanding Copy Share Image
