Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I've gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the… — Charles Bukowski 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
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry. — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery Copy Share Image
