Destiny Quote by Thomas Nashe

“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's Against your…

— Gertrud Kolmar

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be…

— Haruki Murakami

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The…

— Joseph Brodsky

“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.”

— Hafiz

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

“The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running headlong into…

— Gu Cheng

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

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

“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

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat