The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“On Becoming a Poet in the 1950s" There was love and there was trees. Either you could stay inside and probe your… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“To be a true poet is to become God. I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,'… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed,… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“A poet writing poetry, an artist creating calligraphy. An author scripting mastery with an encyclopedia intellect. From from a derelict's viewpoint, that… — Jr. Lily Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead.… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“Well, being a poet is a funny kind of jazz. It doesn’t get you anything. It doesn’t get you any money, or… — Daniel Klawitter Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a unique ability to distill complex emotions into a few lines, creating a powerful impact that lingers in the hearts… — LaTesha Monique Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing,… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
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