The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth... — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“You'll find magic everywhere, even in dark, dusty corners, if you stop searching with your limited human eyes and instead feel with… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse,… — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you,… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
“Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by. — Jewel Copy Share Image
And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
“Without the wetness of your love, the fragrance of your water, or the trickling sounds of your voice ― I shall always… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually.… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage. — Plato Copy Share Image
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