“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of… — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?” — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the… — Anne Hebert Copy Share Image
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age… — Clive James Copy Share Image
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
