Alternatives Quote by Matsuo Bashō

“But my life, oh, my life, had been a constant search for an enormous dream in which my fellow creatures and animals, plants, chimeras,…

— Aleksander Wat

“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

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of…

— Zbigniew Herbert

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley

“How had his life become one a poet would be proud of?”

— Ellie Macdonald

“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined…

— Ayokunle Falomo

“I am poetry, surrounding the dreamer, Ever present, I capture the spirit, enslave the reluctant pen, and become the breath on the writer's only…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“I found poetry to be an outlet for everything I was dealing with. It quickly became not only my voice, but my therapy. I…

— Natalie Perry

“Me - the poet - lost for words.”

— Jessica Brockmole

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you.”

— Colson Whitehead

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron