Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Burn the bad news, I don't want it! Give me instead SOUL FOOD, from within I want to be lit!” — Adiela Akoo Copy Share Image
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also… — Plato 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
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and… — Len G. Murray Copy Share Image
I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“That's a poet.' 'I thought you said it was a bo-at.' 'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?' 'Why, a… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And… — Jim Behrle Copy Share Image
I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“right now, I am a rough draft; I am here to be revisited and revised. hard as I try, I am not… — Caroline Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“In a place like Paris, the air is so thick with dreams they clog the streets and take all the good tables… — Jeremy Mercer Copy Share Image
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