“Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I am the weaver of hope, searching shadows for silver strands of stars. I make light out of darkness. I make dreams… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“To love is a natural instinct. To be loved is “something”. To be loved like crazy, like their life depends on you… — Daya Kudari Copy Share Image
He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in… — Lisa Washington Copy Share Image
“poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?” — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“God has it in for the poets, that's obvious, but the Bombaywallahs hold a special place in his dispensation.” — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
“We get tired by trying way too hard, To get something we probably not look at, The devil distracts us with the… — Ritu Negi Copy Share Image
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
