I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all,… — T.S.Eliot Copy Share Image
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics. — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
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