The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads… — George Murray Copy Share Image
A gay poet is just one of the very many poet gays of yesterday, today and tomorrow. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.” — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
“the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it.… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“The gift that isn't big enough to make a mark, but is too big to leave the possessor in peace. And so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
“Not words. nor laughter. but rather someone who will fall in love with your silence.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.” — Wajid Shaikh Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers,… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors.” — Steve Kaplan Copy Share Image
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“[The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use. — Horace Copy Share Image
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
“Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.” — Somerset maugham Copy Share Image
I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but… — Bradley Walsh Copy Share Image
Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them.” — Lynn Cullen Copy Share Image
Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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