The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was… — Lesley Ann Warren Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts,… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me. — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym. — Wamiqa Gabbi Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
