If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
It was a little harder when I first went to Egypt when I was 18 years old and being a white woman… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." -… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities. — Mary Timony Copy Share Image
Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills… — David Walton Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry. David J Delaney ©” — David J Delaney Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The Soul of a Warrior. Cries out for Battle. The Soul of a Poet, Screams out for Love. I stand between them,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. — Bono Copy Share Image
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
![“the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18e/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic_93688.png)
