The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking. — Roy Fuller Copy Share Image
“Blame the poets. It’s easier to stir people to rebellion if they think they’re on the side of a demigod or some… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for. — Martial Copy Share Image
I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox. — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“The young Efrainite poets got around the city on foot, or by bus ...Some of the Efrainites were belligerent and used to… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in… — Lisa Washington Copy Share Image
“By becoming poets of physical and mental height, we can create new values and build new forms of life, defying the tyranny… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is a moon, that rests in the quiet corners of a lover’s lips.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. — Dudley Moore Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image