There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
As the post said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet. — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“If you would understand a people, look at them through the eyes of the poet, the musician and the artist.” — Cynthia Pearl Maus Copy Share Image
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael,… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them,… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
