Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.

In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!"

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

Shakespeare belongs to the whole of mankind, not just one country.