Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman -
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson -
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Rainn Wilson
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot -
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
Maya Angelou -
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
W. S. Merwin -
When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
Lauren Graham -
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
Lord Dunsany -
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
Antonio Machado
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
Erykah Badu -
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Oscar Wilde -
When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.
Eliphas Levi -
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
William Wordsworth -
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
William Bernbach
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I have always focused on the bottom line.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.
Raphael Saadiq -
Let me first of all congratulate both of the candidates who have made it through - both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are formidable politicians and they have fought great campaigns and they deserve to be in the final two.
Michael Gove -
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton