I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet. — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like ‘many are gone, and those that live are bad’.12” — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose. — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“Autopsychography The poet is a man who feigns And feigns so thoroughly, at last He manages to feign as pain The pain… — FERNANDO PESSOA Copy Share Image
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“You write poetry?" Klaus asked. He had read a lot about poets but had never met one. "Just a little bit," Isadora… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. — Dudley Moore Copy Share Image
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
