My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all -… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I got a head full of headaches, a heart that's full of woes. I'm constantly singin' them down home blues, and not… — Aceyalone Copy Share Image
If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,… — Horace Copy Share Image
I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“You are my reality, fantasy, daydream, fairytale, music, more than the princess in Cinderella; you are much more than a traditional myth.” — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum… — David Amram Copy Share Image
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. — Catullus Copy Share Image
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poetry by its very nature is subversive . . . It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that… — Tim Pratt Copy Share Image
And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Poet To mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds. For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty? — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
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