Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U.S., and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together,… — Momus Copy Share Image
A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom, The ancient poet sung it, And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
“Medicinal Spirit, Inside Mirror Therapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels, No one knows how to upscale another,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied to him simply means… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist.… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
'Allama' is a period film set in the 12th century, for which I had to sport a different look. The story is… — Meghana Raj Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The nearest we approach God ...is as creative beings. The poet, by echoing the primary imagination, recreates. Through his work he forces… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably… For this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that… — Archibald Hill Copy Share Image
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't… — Clive James Copy Share Image
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand,… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
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