Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry. — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the hearth can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I am Stephanie Lahart! An intelligent, empowered, and confident Black Queen. Purposely Fearless!” — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“We became poets before we learned to walk Our roots dug deep with the slight touch of love Our leaves sprouted after… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“Thirsty for being, the poet ceaselessly reaches out to reality, seeking with the indefatigable harpoon of the poem a reality that is… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they… — Plato Copy Share Image
“This is the lone-American type I admire, the kind I believe in, can get along with, and whom I vote for even… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I pen you words from my heart neither paper nor pen would do as I lay them out in flowery fonts what… — Chimnese Davids Copy Share Image
“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.” — R.J. Craddock Copy Share Image
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
