Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.” — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. — Horace Copy Share Image
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of… — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?” — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the… — Anne Hebert Copy Share Image
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is-… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
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