Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. — Dudley Moore Copy Share Image
I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
“… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.” — Yannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I love to write rhymes that have that perfect jingle. You'll know what I'm saying if it makes your Heart tingle. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I am the weaver of hope, searching shadows for silver strands of stars. I make light out of darkness. I make dreams… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry -… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Not even the great poets can explain in words what poetry is. Do you know why? Because poetry is indeed like love,… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The eye of the poet is that of a bird and bug, heart of leaves, or roads. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
