“What broke your heart so bad That you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soul And… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
“In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can’t stop the lines in time, so I’m a… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
“You want to know, companions of my youth, How much has changed the wild but shy young poet Forever writing last poem… — Emmanuel Lacaba Copy Share Image
My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles?… — Plato Copy Share Image
“What do you do when you cannot see any light? Where do you go when you cannot see any path? So I… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual… — James Geary Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food. — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. — Aulus Gellius Copy Share Image
In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet. — Jayne Cortez Copy Share Image
As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
