There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. — Edward Hirsch 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
I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I… — Drake Copy Share Image
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.” — Morgan Dragonwillow Copy Share Image
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
