“Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the… — Vernon Lee 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
“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
I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives… — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
“Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know… — Henry Blake Fuller Copy Share Image
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear… — Janet Fitch 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
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply… — Edward Hirsch 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
