I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“our love like stepping on to a plane sitting down in a car walking on unknown land will either take us to… — scott mcgoldrick Copy Share Image
I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James Copy Share Image
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets. — Z'EV Copy Share Image
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
“One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me- Search me not in my ashes, In my… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think… — Antjie Krog Copy Share Image
A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps,… — Ridgely Torrence Copy Share Image
I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“She’s a galaxy of bright hues, and her heart contains a universe of love. She is starlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
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