In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Every poem that I've created was yours. I thought they were mine, but they were yours. And I wish I could've kept… — Juansen Dizon Copy Share Image
The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the… — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery. — Dorothy Cottrell Copy Share Image
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! — Ouida Copy Share Image
Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine… — James A. McDougall Copy Share Image
When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.” — Martin Espada Copy Share Image
Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
