Art Quote by Christopher Logue

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

— Christopher Logue

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco

There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think…

— Maya Angelou

“Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.”

— Caroline George

There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I had several…

— Edward Hirsch

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

— Shirin Neshat

One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate…

— Anonymous

Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor,…

— Paul Engle

I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their…

— Umberto Eco

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

— T. S. Eliot

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

— Helen Vendler

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their…

— Clifton Fadiman

Oh, what company good poets are!

— Jose Marti

I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a…

— Carolyn Kizer