Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art” — Percy Shelley Copy Share Image
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown Copy Share Image
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“funny how our hearts were designed to love so fiercely. but break ever so gently.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“While the poets were above all interested in the fluid and fugitive aspects of Nature, others desired, by slogging away with a… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Dream Song 187 Them lady poets must not marry, pal. Miss Dickinson—fancy in Amherst bedding hér. Fancy a lark with Sappho, a… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Young poets are too apt to consider themselves “children of the mist” – they must dwell apart from men and contemn their… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
