#poet

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#gift #i #i think #like #mouth

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#excited #few #few people #getting #going

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#fiction #find #going #got #i

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#actor #always #amount #because #certain

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives. ↗

— Henry Reed

#dream #dreams #hear #helps #impacts

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#feel #make #office #poetry #think

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#bursting #me #newly #only #poetical

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#back #being #everything #i #i always

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#boredom #creation #day #god #great

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#better #diligent #expert #god #i