Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse… it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom,… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics. — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“What is it you Frenchies say? Tou-che? You see, I'm a bit of a poet and you did not know it, what?” — The Scarlet Pimpernel Copy Share Image
I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.” — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
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