Poets Quotes · Page 20

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness ”

— Amit Gupta

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

— Dejan Stojanovic

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

— Tom Hodgkinson

“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”

— Cameron Conaway

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose

“We of the craft (poets) are all crazy.”

— Lord Byron

“Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of…

— Emma Ghent Curtis

“How can the Book Award Judges’ decision be right when we know that submitting the same books to different panels will result…

— Mouloud Benzadi

“There was no castle. You were simply listening to a record. A needle, swaying lightly on a black frozen pond, Led the…

— Czesław Miłosz

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common…

— Wislawa Szymborska

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense…

— Peter Davison

Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.

— Reza Aslan

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over…

— Woodrow Wilson

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in…

— Alok Mishra

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they…

— John Berger

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.…

— Robert Graves

T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close…

— Penelope Mitchell

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake…

— Jim Jarmusch

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep…

— Joy Covey

“...if human nature were not a mystery, we'd have no need of poets.”

— Salmon Rushdie

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“When you catch it in the right light, you'll see how each shattered piece of my heart never truly fit back in…

— Jay Long

Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

— Cornel West

“Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.”

— John Fogarty

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

— Anonymous

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it…

— Anonymous

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what…

— James Broughton

“poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

— Cecil Day-Lewis

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

— Roland Barthes

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

— Robert Frost

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

— Edmund Waller

“Support all singers, musicians, photographers, dancers, painters, poets and writers. We don't fight wars. We spread love in the world.”

— Avijeet Das

“Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.”

— John Berryman

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

— Edmund Spenser