When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. — Mahmoud Darwish 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
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato Copy Share Image
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I write first drafts with only the good angel on my shoulder, the voice that approves of everything I write. This voice… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because… — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n;… — William Watson Copy Share Image
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“May I discard the outer cover of time from the layers of poetry by immersing the poet in its entirety within me” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not… — Jasper Sole Copy Share Image
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“This is really what you want? To live with a poet?” “Yes,” she said. “With the hot plate? And the lice?” — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a… — Horace Copy Share Image
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
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