Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, and inspirational--a south wind and not an east… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art” — Percy Shelley Copy Share Image
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown Copy Share Image
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger; invisible hands draw back the curtains, a pallid finger writes forgotten… — Yannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are… — Hermann Hesse 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
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
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Do Not Wait For Me (By Mimi Mata) Do not wait for me... My craving sent me elsewhere I yearn for some… — Mimi Mata (Aspiring Writer Copy Share Image
There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.… — Sandra Cisneros 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
“To love is a natural instinct. To be loved is “something”. To be loved like crazy, like their life depends on you… — Daya Kudari Copy Share Image
“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
