I give credit of my success to my parents. My father was a poet philosopher. — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate." — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
Love is poetry. To fall in love with a person is like understanding a deep, moving poem. Noticing every little detail. To… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places;… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic,… — Khalil Copy Share Image
“Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination. — Cardinalde Bernis Copy Share Image
The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“i am simply the poet. the poem is the one that can change your life. – medium” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
