Other Poets Quotes
14 quotes by 12 authors
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
— John Dryden
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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are…
— Plato
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Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there…
— Roger McGough
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I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense…
— Helen Dunmore
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So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I…
— Ellen Bass
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Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other…
— George Clinton
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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to…
— Carl Sandburg
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I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other…
— Sylvia Plath
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and…
— Len G. Murray
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While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's…
— Thom Gunn
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Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other…
— George Murray
Who Wrote These Other Poets Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 14 Other Poets Quotes as follows: