Poetry Quote by Aristophanes

“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems. We have…

— Jeremiah Walton

“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after…

— Charles Bukowski

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!”

— Avijeet Das

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY.”

— Amy King

“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