Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“i want to be in love with you the same way i am in love with the moon with the light shining… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician… — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we… — Tom Hodgkinson 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
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere… — Horace Copy Share Image
Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“v. It would be very odd if two poets were killed in the same way... May on Lake Asquam, by Jean Giraudoux” — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I didn't study other poets and react against them. I kind of found them later and realised I was different. Quite throwaway,… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!” — Dona Mayoora Copy Share Image
A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but… — Bradley Walsh Copy Share Image
“Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.” — Somerset maugham Copy Share Image
“You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them.” — Lynn Cullen Copy Share Image
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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