“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way - not those who have made it, who… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If you look at the Directory of American Poets and Writers, you know there are hundreds of poets in New York City.… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Who knows the meaning of life, death, or anything else quasi-important. Maybe the starving poets on street corners and oceanside piers. I'd… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I was doing a poetry thing in Tottenham and I remember walking down this road looking for the address, the pub where… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter… — Juliano Alves Copy Share Image
We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare… — Traci Lea LaRussa Copy Share Image
I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that's Yusef Komunyakaa,… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which… — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
“Two thousand Sufi poets assembled in Baghdad last night Bullets, rockets and granades flying Allah heard only their wine voices Bursting in… — Gabriel Rosenstock Copy Share Image
“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners… — Plato Copy Share Image
“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
