If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet. — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. — Don Blanding Copy Share Image
The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to… — Horace Copy Share Image
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
