Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom… — Lewis Cass Copy Share Image
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest… — Tammy-Louise Wilkins Copy Share Image
Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.” — T.S Eliot Copy Share Image
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened. — Lester Cole Copy Share Image
In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
![“The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about [Osip] Mandelstam, who was a great poet and an anti-Stalinist, and [Cesar] Vallejo, who was a great poet and a Stalinist.” quote by Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3f6/robert-hass-3548_closest_the-poem-that-comes-closest-to-saying-wh_2774432.jpg)
