Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative… — Nick Flynn 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
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
“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
God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been… — Rajneesh 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
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying… — Ellen Forney Copy Share Image
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet” — Strider Marcus Jones Copy Share Image
It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
There's this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body. — Borns Copy Share Image
“When one falls his shadow always embraces him, and his empty place is already someone else's. Kushal Poddar, Poet” — Kushal Poddar, Poet Copy Share Image
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds… — Laura Goode Copy Share Image
“I spent all night weaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautiful when you wear my light.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again. — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
