Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk. — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“But poets don't want homes -- do they? -- they are not creatures of hearths and firedogs, but of heaths and ranging… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and… — Len G. Murray Copy Share Image
“That's a poet.' 'I thought you said it was a bo-at.' 'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?' 'Why, a… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter… — Donovan 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
Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“Thirsty for being, the poet ceaselessly reaches out to reality, seeking with the indefatigable harpoon of the poem a reality that is… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
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