I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do. — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.” — E. Millicent Sowerby Copy Share Image
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. — Aulus Gellius Copy Share Image
As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an… — Grace Zabriskie Copy Share Image
I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that's Yusef Komunyakaa,… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare… — Traci Lea LaRussa Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Writers are not called poets just because they make words rhyme. Poets respond to an inner calling that enables them to add… — John Casperson Copy Share Image
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“right now, I am a rough draft; I am here to be revisited and revised. hard as I try, I am not… — Caroline Kaufman Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
