Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one…

There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or die trying

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of…

— Joseph Addison

“add one make dumb add two make poo”

— Janet Hutch

“Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Usually you read a script and you know somebody who knows somebody who maybe knew that person or met them once.

— Amanda Schull

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and…

— Ian Frazier

“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?”

— Aberjhani

“A woman does not become whole, until she has a baby.”

— Chris Mentillo

“Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when…

— Aberjhani

“Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes”

— Benny Bellamacina

“A women does not become whole, until she has a baby.”

— Chris Mentillo

“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall…

— Aberjhani

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member…

— Rae Armantrout

“A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times.”

— Anonymous