You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet. — Plato Copy Share Image
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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