In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you, it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know, your… — Tanzy Sayadi Copy Share Image
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote a number of poems about Kah Tai lagoon, when Safeway was building that huge, ugly store down there where I… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.] — Horace Copy Share Image
I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
