#poet

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#am #i #i am #knew #men

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#around #beauty #beings #everything #gift

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#important thing #little #most #poets #possible

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#always #been #buildings #case #every

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do. ↗

— Mari Evans

#go #i #language #must #poetic

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#future #image #language #newness #opens

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. ↗

— Mario Batali

#book #college #day #different #dirty

Life is what you make it, death is how you take it. -Nate Spears ↗

— Nate Spears

#natespears #poetnatespears #death

أليست النفس تموتُ مَرَّهْ فخذْ عليها أن تموتَ حُــرَّهْ ↗

— أحمد شوقي

#death #freedom #life #death