They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom. — Plato Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his… — Subramanya Bharathi Copy Share Image
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems. — Henri Cole Copy Share Image
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse; — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine… — James A. McDougall Copy Share Image
Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“ Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.” — Martin Espada Copy Share Image
When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
