Poets Quotes

God, eldest of Poets.

— William Watson

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Poets make the best topographers.”

— W.G. Hoskins

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

“When did most of us stop being poets?”

— Michael St. George

Procreation annihilates eternity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

— Peter Davison

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

— Caitlin Thomas

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

— Maryanne Wolf

“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.”

— Avijeet Das

“. . . a racer snake / slicking off / like a signature into the weeds.”

— Tony Crunk

“your smile. is the ultimate golden dream. all the poems in the world are waking up from.”

— Sanober Khan

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was…

— Grace Paley

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta

“depth and substance. the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poem or a person.”

— Sanober Khan

“To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to…

— Fernando Pessoa

“We became poets before we learned to walk Our roots dug deep with the slight touch of love Our leaves sprouted after…

— Avijeet Das

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

— Francois Mauriac

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

— Stanley Kunitz

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,…

— W.B. Yeats

Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked…

— David Sedaris

“These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in…

— Ian McEwan

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,…

— Patti Smith

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are…

— Criss Jami

I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

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

You have a soul I have a soul You live like you I live like me I screw few beings As I'm…

— Subi Foa

“Artists are makers, not just mouthers of slippery discourse. Language, the poets' medium, should not be privileged over the protean materials of…

— Camile Pagli

There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.…

— Sandra Cisneros

Do Not Wait For Me (By Mimi Mata) Do not wait for me... My craving sent me elsewhere I yearn for some…

— Mimi Mata (Aspiring Writer

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation…

— T.S. Eliot

“His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more…

— Walt Whitman

“It seems to me indisputably true that a good many people, the wide world over, of varying ages, cultures, natural endowments, respond…

— J.D. Salinger