I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but -… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve,… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars.… — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry,… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting.… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a unique ability to distill complex emotions into a few lines, creating a powerful impact that lingers in the hearts… — LaTesha Monique Copy Share Image
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing,… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
![“Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.” quote by Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f1/charles-bukowski-73_delicate_homosexuals-are-delicate-and-bad-poetry_2952094.jpg)
![“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight…” quote by John Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bcd/john-milton-191_age_rhyme-is-but-the-invention-of-a-barbarou_3127072.jpg)
