The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Without the wetness of your love, the fragrance of your water, or the trickling sounds of your voice ― I shall always… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by. — Jewel Copy Share Image
And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet,… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. — Rufus Wilmot Griswold Copy Share Image
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“In you I see an immaculate woman full of feminine grace and untarnished beauty.” — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
