If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency, — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
“There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.” — Saru Singhal Copy Share Image
Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also… — Plato Copy Share Image
if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
Sport in itself has this power. If you are a poet or a singer, people gravitate. I may not be in the… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
“She lends her pen, to thoughts of him, that flow from it, in her solitary. For she is his poet, And he… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's… — William Everson Copy Share Image
I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
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
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
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
“Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but… — Céline Sciamma Copy Share Image
“That odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning.” — H.D Copy Share Image
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
![“Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b4e/jean-paul-sartre-220_poet_take-st-phane-mallarme-i-hold-him-to-be_145157.png)
