Art Quote by Scott Jonathan Nixon

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more…

— Andrew Carnegie

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.”

— Walt Whitman

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of…

— Virginia Woolf

“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“I don’t trust masters who can’t be down-to-earth. For me they’re like those eccentric poets who can’t write like everybody else. I accept that…

— Fernando Pessoa

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

— F. Sionil Jose

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

“You may be wonderful with words, but your best writing comprises of the words that had been said to you by somebody else and…

— Gaurav Sharma

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem