Poets Quotes · Page 20

“for we all have our own twilights and mists and abysses to return to.”

— Sanober Khan

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

— Edward Hirsch

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

— Mary MacLane

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

— Ovid

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

“And stay, my dear stay... forever, as my quiet song, in my lilac dawn.”

— Sanober Khan

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

— Pattiann Rogers

Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45

— Pete Wentz

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

— Horace

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

— Mary Oliver

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

— Robert Graves

“Because life is so much more than internet, bank balance, and materialistic possessions. Poets don't dream of becoming millionaires.”

— Avijeet Das

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

— Mason Cooley

“A single wire hanger on a nail by itself Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor Is too gloomy…

— Dara Weir

“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la…

— Pierre Reverdy

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps…

— Patrick Rothfuss

We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there…

— Sam Hamill

Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious…

— Stephen Spender

I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently…

— Dan Chiasson

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through…

— Rollo May

“Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,…

— William Knox

“In the republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the…

— Martxedn Espada

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

— Barbara Tuchman

“They grew; they did not talk about growing.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.”

— Jeanette Winterson

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that…

— Anonymous

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

— Harriet Monroe

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you…

— Melody Minagar

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

— Caterina Fake

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

— Anonymous

“All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so…

— Hagiwara Sakutaro

O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a…

— William Butler Yeats

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

— Julian Jaynes

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

— William Faulkner

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated…

— Robin Williams

I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

— Wendy Cope

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

— Terence McKenna

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

— Guy Gavriel Kay