“It's funny how fast a book goes, but how slow the wait appears. the book may end, but the mind still thinks...waiting… — Nandanie Phalgoo Copy Share Image
Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age… — Clive James Copy Share Image
In the year of our Lord 1314. Patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior… — William Wallace Copy Share Image
Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
“You have never been as beautiful as you will be through our eyes. You will have never known that the hard edge… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
To the question always asked, 'why do you write?' the response of the poet will always be the briefest 'In order to… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace?” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“Blame the poets. It’s easier to stir people to rebellion if they think they’re on the side of a demigod or some… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
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