Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...if human nature were not a mystery, we'd have no need of poets.” — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“From oriole to crow, note the decline In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.” — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
“Burn the bad news, I don't want it! Give me instead SOUL FOOD, from within I want to be lit!” — Adiela Akoo Copy Share Image
With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“The perfect person does not exist. There is no woman or man you would meet who would make you write poetry. So… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“2:36 am 2 am is for the poets who can’t sleep because their minds are alive with words for someone who’s not… — L.S Copy Share Image
“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
