Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. — Aulus Gellius Copy Share Image
As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts,… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“I am unknown; what does it matter? Poets are brothers. These lines believe; they love; they hope; and that is all. Dear… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“They're not. That's partly what's so awful. I mean they're not real poets. They're just people that write poems that get published… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“We get tired by trying way too hard, To get something we probably not look at, The devil distracts us with the… — Ritu Negi Copy Share Image
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I pen you words from my heart neither paper nor pen would do as I lay them out in flowery fonts what… — Chimnese Davids Copy Share Image
“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“This is the lone-American type I admire, the kind I believe in, can get along with, and whom I vote for even… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
