Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems. — Henri Cole Copy Share Image
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
In the interest of the ethical and moral health of the country, the writer, the poet, the artist, the thinker, must hold… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that.… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we… — Anna Wickham Copy Share Image
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine,… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit… — Ocean Crisstopher Poet Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
