The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45 — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth... — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc.… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“The perfect person does not exist. There is no woman or man you would meet who would make you write poetry. So… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family,… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.” / The yellow hobbyhorse rocks to and fro, and from… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children… — Assia Djebar Copy Share Image
“A Blessing on the Poets Patient earth-digger, impatient fire-maker, Hungry word-taker and roving sound-lover, Sharer and saver, muser and acher, You who… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
