Poets Quotes · Page 23

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life…

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!”

— Dona Mayoora

“v. It would be very odd if two poets were killed in the same way... May on Lake Asquam, by Jean Giraudoux”

— Jean Giraudoux

I didn't study other poets and react against them. I kind of found them later and realised I was different. Quite throwaway,…

— Tim Key

“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.”

— Sanober Khan

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

— Steven Heighton

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do…

— Lucretius

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just…

— James Laughlin

Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so…

— Sarah Kay

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition…

— Aberjhani

“The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming,…

— D.H. Lawrence

“SELF BENEATH THE SURFACE, VEILED ON PURPOSE, ALL KNOWING AND GRAND, DIRECTED, GUIDED, BY THE ETERNAL HAND, SUSTAINED, FULFILLED, FULL OF LIGHT,…

— Charles Edward

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer…

— Tom Waits

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered…

— Susan Glaspell

“Writers, poets and artists inspire each other. I believe they become muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.”

— Robert Lynd

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had…

— Christopher Dawson

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

— Bohumil Hrabal

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that…

— Socrates

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

— Stephen King

“Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?”

— C.S. Lewis

“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.”

— Harold Bloom

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

— Honore de Balzac

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that…

— Gaston Bachelard

“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.”

— Sanober Khan

“Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets…

— Azar Nafisi

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

— Octavio Paz

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

— Alexander Pope

“Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame…

— Michael S. Harper

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

— Peter S. Beagle

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,…

— Randall Jarrell

“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of…

— Michelle Geaney

“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the…

— Aberjhani

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

— Dejan Stojanovic