Poetry Quote by Anthony Robbins

“English teaching at school is, unfortunately, obsessed with what a poet thought, as though that were of any interest to anyone. Rather than being…

— Mark Forsyth

“William Blake admired the work of William Wordsworth but is said to have once been so mad at him over a theological point in…

— Lisa R. Spaar

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

— Bruce Dickinson

“Poetry is an old wise serpent which only occasionally comes out to catch the sun (and scare people).”

— Leila Samarrai

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

— Adrian Mitchell

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a…

— Tony Hoagland

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only…

— Jim Jarmusch

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Or reading poetry. Now there was a job that should exist. To spend one’s days in the company of Blake and Dickinson, Yeats and…

— Anne D. LeClaire

“...slowly I discerned a familiar shift in my concentration. That compulsion that prohibits me from completely surrendering to a work of art, drawing me…

— Patti Smith