And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations! — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.” — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in… — Phill Jupitus Copy Share Image
A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. — Rene Char Copy Share Image
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
“We aren't so called black people. We are black people. Be black and proud!” — Dr.Nana Adu-Boafo Jnr Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada. — George Murray Copy Share Image
Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them. — Del Close Copy Share Image
“Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
