This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“. . . a racer snake / slicking off / like a signature into the weeds.” — Tony Crunk Copy Share Image
“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves,… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to… — Kevin Crossley-Holland Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems.… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
“My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, ‘You… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“Therefore, poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places'… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
“I want to be the one you run to. I want to be the one you miss. I want your arms to… — Rachel Nicole Wagner Copy Share Image
Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I must have wanton Poets, pleasant wits, Musitians, that with touching of a string May draw the pliant king which way I… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image