Mad Quote by Dan Simmons

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

— Peter Davison

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

— Alphonse Daudet

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

— Anne Sexton

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger