Books Quote by Alexander Pope

“Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the fact that…

— Naeem Murr

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

— William Blake

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

— Laura Riding

“The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Most men have learned…

— Thoreau Henry David

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“There is something soothing about the act of writing, a drug that lures you into another world, but then forgets to stop, and sometimes…

— Alessandra Torre

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

— Conor Oberst

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

— Denise Levertov

“Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it…

— Jamie Weise

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

“Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new ones.”

— Mary Shelley

“Sonnets to write before I sleep.”

— Abhijit Naskar