Quotes of: Poets Keyword

I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that has no end and no beginning, no purpose and no goal. I do not speak to you, and you do not speak to me; we listen only to the music of silence. Silen...

Absent Presence

The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teac...

In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the m...

Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, M...

The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! Arouse for you must justify me you must a...

Walt Whitman

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

Complete Poems

a criminal sketch of Christ on a diner napkin -'Poet Prophets

Drunk Dialing the Divine

...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...

A Familiar Rain

Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.

The Forsaken

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Lloyd Wright

YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.

I WANT TO MAKE YOU SAFE

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

Sexing the Cherry

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

A Moveable Feast

In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line.

A moment with God ; Poetry

You don't have to flay him with it. He's the son of a poet and has the soul of a bard.

Kiss Across Time

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

Letters to a Young Poet

Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

Madame Bovary

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Parnassus on Wheels

Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.

Rare People and Rare Books