I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. — Horace Copy Share Image
“At the end of the night awaits the white morning: showered in sunlight.” — Gerrit Achterberg Copy Share Image
“Destiny never defames herself but when she lets an excellent poet die.” — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified;… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“How was I supposed to know that slamming doors was saying goodbye you did it all the time and he still let… — Alisha Christensen Copy Share Image
“I cast my eyes out to the sea and gaze at all eternity until forever turns to night. My eyes then lift… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
“She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone,… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously.… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
“A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because… — Tanya R. Liverman Copy Share Image
“This reminded him of Alvis Bender's contention that stories were like nations - Italy, a great epic poem, Britain, a thick novel,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
