Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It’s no game. Believe me, she is a woman of far greater complexity than you—or anyone—realize. The secrets inside her mind are… — Fumiko Enchi Copy Share Image
I never have restricted myself into a frame of a particular technique. My techniques are determined simultaneously along with the subjects of… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against. — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness,… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“Love withers but never dies. Its tendrils are embedded on fecund soil awaiting the nourishing spring to make it sprout once more.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Her thoughts became mysteriously tightened and strung up as if a piano tuner had put his key in her back and stretched… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
