Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote…

Somewhere she waits to make you win, Your soul in her firm white hands; somewhere the gods have made for you The Woman Who…

— Everard Jack Appleton

“So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.”

— Hal Duncan

“Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of your mind, waiting for our call. We…

— Stanley Kunitz

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum…

— Aulus Gellius

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

— Abraham Lincoln

“That is all. Two epochs met. A silly little girl and an old poet.”

— Lina Kostenko

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

— Stanley Kunitz

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when…

— Philip Larkin

I am not a writer, But I have written Our love story. I am not a poet, But I wrote for you A poem.…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee…

— Virginia Woolf

Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along…

— Sam Hamill

“It seemed to me that I had already seen everything pure and good in the world, and I was beginning to suspect that even…

— John Green

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

— Sebastian Lelio

“Mom took me off the BiPAP, I tethered myself to a portable tank, and stumbled into my bathroom to brush my teeth. Appraising myself…

— John Green