Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“There Are No Believers in This World: There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers. ” — Sharon Esther Lampert Copy Share Image
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry… Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
“My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild-deer, and… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well… — Gauguin Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.” — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. — Christopher Pearse Cranch Copy Share Image
“The moon is my fear. The sun is my heart afire. The stars, my love songs.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
