People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. — William A. Henry III 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
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
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
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
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell 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
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela,… — Ray Wylie Hubbard Copy Share Image
In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
