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“I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you’re always an outsider...”

— Natasha Trethewey

“In certain ways the lives of the poets and the lives of the saints are similar: the solitary travails, the epiphanic awakening and early…

— Jeet Thayil

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

— Mark Takano

I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the…

— May Sarton

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Alphonse Daudet

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

— Russell Simmons

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish…

— Anita Diament

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)”

— Pierre Reverdy

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani