Clever Quote by Andre Naffis-Sahely

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep…

— Wendy Cope

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

“Why do most people write poems about nature? For the same reason that every community center is propped up with industrious, self painted landscapes:…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

— Socrates

“As a consequence of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, the questions once asked by philosophy have now passed into the realms of poetry. The way poetry is…

— Paul Strathern

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way…

— Will Willingham

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

— Isaac Newton

Why should poetry have to make sense?

— Charlie Chaplin

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb