Behavior Quote by B. F. Skinner

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

— Stanley Kunitz

“With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create…

— Amit Kalantri

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the…

— Tennessee Williams

“If we leave that general descriptive talk where everything which looks like a poem can be called a poem and turn instead to normative…

— Lars Gustafsson

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

— John Keats

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how…

— Plato

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.”

— Tim Palmer

Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think…

— Roderick Nash

“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the…

— William Cronon

“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but…

— Wallace Stegner