Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“funny how our hearts were designed to love so fiercely. but break ever so gently.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson 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
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in… — Anonymous 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
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me.… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
“She asked me "what is it about these people - the silent ones, the thinking ones, and the brooding ones why do… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I… — Roger Cardinal Copy Share Image
“My advice for aspiring writers is simply this: NEVER GIVE UP. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot achieve your… — Rachel Nicole Wagner 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)
