Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“I am the contrast. I am forever the crack in the window that lets the winter in. I am forever the moment… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
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