I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then,… — David McFadden Copy Share Image
“She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the rain-drops fall… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“How....will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary” — Williams Robin Professor Keating Copy Share Image
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an… — Grace Zabriskie Copy Share Image
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
“He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen. They release the ink that flows from within their heart. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
