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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

— J. D. Salinger

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

— Lionel Trilling

“It is always a poet's winter.”

— Kate Braverman

“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the deeds done.…

— Benjamin R. Smith

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

— Wallace Stevens

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.

— Wallace Stevens

“some winters will never melt some summers will never freeze and some things will only ... live in poems.”

— Sanober Khan

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a…

— W. H. Auden

I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

— Kevin Young

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

— Robert Hass

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.”

— James Dickey