“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it. — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
“In you I see an immaculate woman full of feminine grace and untarnished beauty.” — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing. — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
“Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent- a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is… — The Hakawati Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
“Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem. — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45 — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
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