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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
“...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...” — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
“But the Duchess's Soul being troubled, that her dear Lord and Husband used such a violent exercise before meat, for fear of overheating himself,… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
