“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The gift that isn't big enough to make a mark, but is too big to leave the possessor in peace. And so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la… — Pierre Reverdy Copy Share Image
This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the… — Horace Copy Share Image
“What was it Like?" "What was what like?" he said, although he knew. "Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something.… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne, Poets who wrote great poems, one by one, And spaced by many years, each line an… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“In the republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the… — Martxedn Espada Copy Share Image
“Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,… — William Knox Copy Share Image
“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s… — Harley King Copy Share Image
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“It was likely, then that this—-this stumbling walk on a wet night across a ploughed field-—meant death. Death—-the thing one had always… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one… — Phoebe Tonkin Copy Share Image
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
![“Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]” quote by Lucretius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/lucretius-1632_cease_nay-the-greatest-wits-and-poets-too-ceas_1801162.png)
![“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)” quote by Pierre Reverdy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb1/pierre-reverdy-33281_crystals_poems-are-crystals-deposited-after-the-e_13424.jpg)
