Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“Because life is so much more than internet, bank balance, and materialistic possessions. Poets don't dream of becoming millionaires.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“A single wire hanger on a nail by itself Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor Is too gloomy… — Dara Weir Copy Share Image
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better. — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Poets, as a class, are business men. Shakespeare describes the poet's eye as rolling in a fine frenzy from heaven to earth,… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
“The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“This is how we were meant for each other. How we make our living. The lives of frustrated poets and imposters. This,… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“You ask if I will write a poem I could, I suppose write the most splendiferous one of all but not right… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“I’m a maker of ballads right pretty I write them right here in the street You can buy them all over the… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
“All writers recognize this surge of striking; in its energies the objects of the world are made new, alchemized by their passage… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts;… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
