“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“am born a poet, of a low class without doubt yet a poet. This is my nature and vocation”),” — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass,… — Jacob Grimm Copy Share Image
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like,… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
“Wandering aimlessly, I love the thrill of unknown paths. Am I a nomad? Am I a wanderer? May be I am a… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“Her legacy was that she loved with all she had, whether you deserved it or not.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician? — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Where even ravi (the sun) cannot reach, there will go a kavi (poet)." - Vimalananda” — Robert E. Svoboda Copy Share Image
