Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.” — E. Millicent Sowerby Copy Share Image
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do. — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“You are immensely gifted my friend You can find it within you Like I found something within me A few years ago...” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of… — Arthur Quinn 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
“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.” — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which… — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“A Blessing on the Poets Patient earth-digger, impatient fire-maker, Hungry word-taker and roving sound-lover, Sharer and saver, muser and acher, You who… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
“I breathe in... The sights and smells Of this city I’ve come to know... So well I gaze... Across the turquoise ocean… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that poets are toddlers in a cathedral, slobbering on wooden blocks and piling them up in the light of… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
“the problem that I’ve found with most poets that I have known is that they’ve never had an 8 hour job and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
