“[The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use. — Horace Copy Share Image
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers,… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors.” — Steve Kaplan Copy Share Image
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I had begun to suspect, however, that there is a poet—or a kind of poet—buried in every human being like Ariel in… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on?… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time… — Steve Yarbrough Copy Share Image
“Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not… — Jasper Sole Copy Share Image
I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often.… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“To be a true poet is to become God. I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,'… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come… — Gabriele d'Annunzio Copy Share Image
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Suddenly she wants to fall to her knees and pray for the poets. She imagines them with immaculate ravaged faces, with necklaces… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“Present-day worthy poets’ and writers’ writings and books should be added to the syllabus and studied in the schools, colleges and universities… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the… — Barbara Pym 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
“SELF BENEATH THE SURFACE, VEILED ON PURPOSE, ALL KNOWING AND GRAND, DIRECTED, GUIDED, BY THE ETERNAL HAND, SUSTAINED, FULFILLED, FULL OF LIGHT,… — Charles Edward Copy Share Image
Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It reminds me of poets, before all this—how the sensitive souls who submitted their work to literary journals outnumbered those who read… — Adrian Barnes Copy Share Image
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