As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is… — Eamon Grennan Copy Share Image
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon,… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against. — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
“Love withers but never dies. Its tendrils are embedded on fecund soil awaiting the nourishing spring to make it sprout once more.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness,… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Her thoughts became mysteriously tightened and strung up as if a piano tuner had put his key in her back and stretched… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
