And the poet says that by starlight You come seeking, in…

“I On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping White Ophelia floats like a great lily; Floats very slowly, lying in her…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Here's a question we all ask ourselves at least once when we're young: Where does that starlight come from? It's been there before I…

— Kim Young-ha

If we sleep on flowers, its called our first night . if flowers sleep on us, its called our last night Reality of life..

— Ritu Ghatourey

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

— Jean Ingelow

“Sometimes she forces herself under water. She pretends she’s dead. She pretends she has drowned. She is Millais’ Ophelia floating down a stream, clutching…

— Kate Zambreno

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

— W. H. Auden

“A true poet does not say 'azure'; a true poet says 'blue.”

— Else Lasker-Schüler

One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it…

— W. H. Auden

“America is a dream. The poet says it was promises. The people say it is promises—that will come true. The people do not always…

— Langston Hughes

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

— Jeanette Winterson

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is- the poet…

— Joseph Devlin

“In the old days a poet once said" In the old days a poet once said our nation is destroyed yet the mountains and…

— Ko Un

“A poet says, “The libraries of how many a nation did that orphan wipe clean who did not even learn how to read?”

— Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi

“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.”

— Cath Crowley

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

— Mahmoud Darwish