'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

— Harry Chapin

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

— Stephen King

I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the…

— Anonymous

“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.”

— Álvaro de Campos

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets…

— Daphne du Maurier

She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets…

— Harry Chapin

I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to…

— Robert Hass

“He is half my soul as the poets say”

— Madeline Miller

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on…

— Richard Feynman

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in…

— Horace

“When you are falling in love it is always already too late: dēute, as the poets say.”

— Anne Carson

“When people say, 'I've told you fifty times,'        They mean to scold, and very often do;      When poets say, 'I've written fifty…

— Lord Byron

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on…

— Richard P. Feynman

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I suspect that the age of letters is waning, for our time. It is the age of Panama Canals, of Sandra Bernhardt, of Western…

— Henry James