“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the hearth can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.” — R.J. Craddock Copy Share Image
“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
A versifier with neither heart nor soul is, rather than a poet, a dull and lifeless thinking pen or keyboard. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me. — Gza Copy Share Image
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger; invisible hands draw back the curtains, a pallid finger writes forgotten… — Yannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
“Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the… — Horace Copy Share Image
“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
