A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital… — Samuel McChord Crothers Copy Share Image
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry,… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly.Cling to them, survey them… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men. — William Watson Copy Share Image
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves,… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“...The dog (the poet) is on top of a locomotive,”… “He’s got a box full of track, and he’s frenetically laying down… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Rupi Kaur is an author and poet who posts the most beautiful, thought-provoking excerpts on her Instagram. — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
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