“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities. — Mary Timony Copy Share Image
Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Oh, if somewhere there were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive at once, a poet's spirit in… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful,… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit. These are the things all the great philosophers just won’t tell you flat out about… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills… — David Walton Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry. David J Delaney ©” — David J Delaney Copy Share Image
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you? — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust. — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
