Poets Quotes

943 Poets quotes by 613 unique authors

This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the… — Unknown Author
Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision:… — Charles Harper Webb
. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made… — Plato
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. — William Bernbach
And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets. — Ray Bradbury
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a… — Jorge Luis Borges
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that… — Italo Calvino
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free… — Andrew Motion
Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on… — Paul Muldoon
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x,… — Sharon Olds
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the… — Kenneth Koch
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to… — Kenneth Koch
Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets. — Kenneth Koch
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted… — Stephen Spender
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a… — Al Gore
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. — Edward Abbey
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds. — Amiri Baraka
Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers. — Dan Simmons
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. — Greg Bear
I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything. — Unknown Author
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous… — Unknown Author
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted… — Dennis Nurkse
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by… — Denis Diderot
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the… — George Grosz

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