Poets Quotes

943 Poets quotes by 613 unique authors

Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you… — Neil Armstrong
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side!… — Howard Zinn
What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today… — Russell Brand
Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an… — Patti Smith
I warmly recommend to you the films of poets. — Francois Truffaut
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many… — Amber Tamblyn
Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps — George MacKay
I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m always writing, but… — Dorianne Laux
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to… — Mary Ruefle
Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up? — Gary D. Schmidt
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need… — John Burnside
Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search… — Anthony Bourdain
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. — Oscar Wilde
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging… — Edward Abbey
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to… — Julian Barnes
Good poets borrow, great poets steal — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality… — Stephen Shore
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. — Sigmund Freud
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets. — Aristophanes
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business… — William Carlos Williams
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing… — Arthur Miller
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — PJ Harvey
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players… — Thomas M. Disch

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