Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.” — Carol Hovsepian Copy Share Image
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
“A Poet does not Wait on Dreams They Create Them Richard M Knittle Jr. ©2016” — Richard M Knittle Jr Copy Share Image
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth... — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
“... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc.… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
