“As poets value the sounds of words above their meanings, and images above arguments, I am trying to get thinking people to… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life… — Lord Byron 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
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“This dream the world is having about itself includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we… — Anna Wickham Copy Share Image
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Not even the great poets can explain in words what poetry is. Do you know why? Because poetry is indeed like love,… — Jean-Paul Malfatti 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
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“But more importantly, know I love you more than I can say with simple words. Poets have attempted for centuries to find… — Lissa Bryan Copy Share Image
As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry -… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
