Poets Quotes

943 Poets quotes by 613 unique authors

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness.… — Jean-Claude Izzo
If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage. — Del Close
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems,… — Michael Jackson
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by… — Richard P. Feynman
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and… — William Faulkner
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the… — Gustav Stresemann
God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us. — Peter Altenberg
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is… — Alex Haley
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. — Jack Prelutsky
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I… — Jack Prelutsky
My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it. — Miguel Serrano
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What… — Kwame Dawes
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas… — Sue Halpern
Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer. — Woody Allen
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to… — Mahmoud Darwish
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not… — Diane Wakoski
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. — Margaret Atwood
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark. — Jorge Luis Borges
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body? — Roland Barthes
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life… — Haniel Long
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a… — Eyvind Johnson
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. — Margaret J. Wheatley

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