Humor Quote by Bjork

Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that…

— Margaret Atwood

Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?

— Anne Sexton

I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man,…

— Russell Simmons

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise…

— Umberto Eco

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

— Conor Oberst

And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes…

— Conor Oberst

“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