True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine 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
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal. — Walther von der Vogelweide Copy Share Image
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image… — Enya Copy Share Image
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“The Congregating of Stars They often meet in mountain lakes, No matter how remote, no matter how deep Down and far they… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
