It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat.… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“What do you do when you cannot see any light? Where do you go when you cannot see any path? So I… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging. — Dorianne Laux 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
The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I've gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best… — James Arthur 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
“Advice to a Young Poet Don’t spend yourself in the small copper coins of complaint and accusation. Don’t answer those in authority,… — Ondra Lysohorsky Copy Share Image
“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!” — Darnaya Darice Copy Share Image
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk. — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
“You must seduce poetry with the heart of your words before she'll sprinkle you with the magic of hers.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a… — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“You—and I’ll venture every third writer in Europe nowadays—fancies himself a poet, when all you’re doing is building little towers of words… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. — Aulus Gellius Copy Share Image
As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet. — Jayne Cortez Copy Share Image
