Poet Quotes · Page 96

Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and…

— David Biespiel

There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of…

— Randall Jarrell

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,…

— Anonymous

I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was…

— Ai Weiwei

Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these…

— Rae Armantrout

When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still…

— Edward Albee

“At,twelve,o’clock,the,poet,is,sad. At,thirteen,o’clock,the,world,goes,mad. At,mad,o’clock,the,hero’s,blood. At,blood,o’clock,the,shining,truth. At,truth,o’clock,the,Timeless,Head.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the…

— Derek Walcott

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn…

— Barry S. Strauss

I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is…

— Matthew Zapruder

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that…

— Jack Driscoll

At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save…

— Anonymous

Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who…

— Stephen Spender

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would…

— William Shakespeare

You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two…

— Gary D. Schmidt

Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set…

— Italo Calvino

I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as…

— Arthur Honegger

My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat…

— Lawrence Joseph

When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in…

— Socrates

Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the…

— Robert Mondavi

Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life…

— J. G. Holland

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…

— Stevie Nicks

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small…

— Orson F. Whitney

[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the…

— David Bennun

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an…

— John Ruskin

“What is Poetry (My Sonnet, My Rules) Any gargoyle can google the definition of a sonnet, Any robot can write and rhyme…

— Abhijit Naskar

Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put…

— Joseph Brodsky

At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as…

— Studs Terkel

The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing…

— John Dos Passos

That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to…

— Matthew Zapruder

You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to…

— Olive Schreiner

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?”…

— Anonymous

“All that really matters is to feel alive, if only for a single moment – to feel in Intense Sensation that our…

— Pietros Maneos

Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets,…

— Lewis Thomas

If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems…

— Ted Kooser