Poets Write Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

• Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write… — Miller Williams
• 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
• 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
• CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce
• I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto… — Pat Conroy
• The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose… — Eugenio Montale
• They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me. — Tom Glazer
• Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about..… — Kenneth Koch
• 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
• All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. — Umberto Eco
• Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as… — Robert E. Howard
• Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief… — Upton Sinclair
• I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the… — Patrick Rothfuss
• Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong
• Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence. — Brian Harris
• When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals… — Joyce Carol Oates

Who Wrote These Poets Write Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 17 Poets Write Quotes as follows:

• 1 Poets Write Quote by Tom Glazer
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Kenneth Koch
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Carl Sandburg
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Umberto Eco
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Robert E. Howard
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Upton Sinclair
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Patrick Rothfuss
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Erica Jong
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Brian Harris
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Joyce Carol Oates
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Miller Williams
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Eric Hoffer
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Sharon Olds
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Pat Conroy
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 Poets Write Quote by Eugenio Montale