Indeed, there is pain when spring buds burst..." Wasn't…

“Persian poet said, the rose blooms reddest where some buried Caesar bled. The”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy." His eyes…

— Catherine Fisher

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

— Allen Tate

“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

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

— Tertullian

I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from -…

— Eavan Boland

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

— Virginia Woolf

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost…

— Clive James

“When in my early twenties, I first heard Ghalib’s ‘Hazaron Khwahishein Aisi’ in Jagjit Singh’s rendition for the TV serial Ghalib, I was astounded!…

— Arundhati Ghosh

“Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, “God may reduce you on Judgement Day…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God…

— Mary Oliver

“It was time enough for whole lives to have been led and misled... time enough, as the poet said, to murder and create --…

— Amor Towles

I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said he was…

— Scott Glenn

“It is not true that faith, as a Victorian poet said, "puts out the eye of light"; without it there would be no light…

— A.E. Taylor