Clerks Quote by Edwin Arlington Robinson

The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those…

— Paul Engle

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

— Basil Bunting

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

— James Russell Lowell

“What poets, I cried aloud, as one does in the dusk, what poets they were! In a sort of jealousy, I suppose, for our…

— Virginia Woolf

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than when reading…

— Jane Austen

“Poets are fools until they are kings.”

— Atticus

“I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry — all of the past you read is usually quite great — but it is a…

— Frank O'Hara

“In a time when error reigns— bleak days the world doth mourn, cries of anguish, great with pain, children of the light forlorn.”

— David Beckett