For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In the arts, in places where you're not going to save lives or save species, I think there's no reason to play… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom,… — Gil Evans Copy Share Image
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
[Abdellatif Laâbi] was a poet and worked as a high school teacher; and although he hadn't broken any laws, the Moroccan government… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me. — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy” — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry… Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“There Are No Believers in This World: There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers. ” — Sharon Esther Lampert Copy Share Image
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