Brain Quote by George MacDonald

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If…

— Martha Beck

When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a…

— Danica McKellar

When I use electronic beats and program things, there's something quite brain about that - you're feeling it in your body but it's like…

— Bat for Lashes

“Every man is a poet at heart.”

— Sigmund Freud

“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”

— Virginia Woolf

“Old soul. Poet's heart. Warriors mind.”

— Melody Lee

My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But…

— Gustave Flaubert

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

— Virginia Woolf

“Envy won't make you a better poet.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“For me the poem and the poetry open mic isn’t about competition and it never will be. Honestly? It's wrong. The open mic is…

— R.M. Engelhardt

“I’ve wanted to write about them for a long while, but it’s a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps worthy of…

— Wisława Szymborska

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

— Jack Kerouac

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's…

— Sherman Alexie