Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong 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 tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which… — Lucy Larcom 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
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Don’t pack out! To some people, you make life bright When you decide to dim your light Their lives will be full… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish 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
I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to… — Clive James Copy Share Image
