Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen. They release the ink that flows from within their heart. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Blame the poets. It’s easier to stir people to rebellion if they think they’re on the side of a demigod or some… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“We inspire each other. Poets and Artists are best friends and muses for each other.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard Copy Share Image
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
“It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through the pandemic attacks into a new reality. They are the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful… — Mark A. Roeder Copy Share Image
“I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Poetry fills clubs, halls and venues. Poets and poems can talk to the deepest feelings and to the silliest. It can be… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really… — William Faulkner 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
“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
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
“Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Although my road to writing seems like it may have come easily, there were a few bumps in that road. I didn’t… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
![“The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/118/william-faulkner-306_always-wrong_the-poets-are-wrong-of-course-but-then-p_3100133.png)
