Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard Copy Share Image
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“She's a good poet but a very neurotic woman." "Don't the two go together?” — Michael Nava Copy Share Image
If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet. — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
