Finest Quote by Annie Dillard

“What poets, I cried aloud, as one does in the dusk, what poets they were! In a sort of jealousy, I suppose, for our…

— Virginia Woolf

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology…

— Laura Riding

I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I…

— T. S. Eliot

O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as…

— Patti Smith

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest…

— Ron Rash

“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry. Without those,…

— Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

— Karl Shapiro

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

— William Wordsworth

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani