Blue Quote by Else Lasker-Schüler

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

— Jean Cocteau

“Her favorite color is blue. She says that blue is associated with vastness; the skies are blue, the oceans are blue.”

— Mahbod Seraji

“In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: "I wish you luck." I am astonished; but later I…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Do you know what O'Keefe Says about blue? he asked her, blowing out a cloud of smoke, warming to her voice, though he did…

— Alice Walker

“And the poet says that by starlight You come seeking, in the night, the flowers that you picked And that he has seen on…

— Arthur Rimbaud

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

— Mahmoud Darwish

One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it…

— W. H. Auden

“America is a dream. The poet says it was promises. The people say it is promises—that will come true. The people do not always…

— Langston Hughes

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

— Jeanette Winterson

“In the old days a poet once said" In the old days a poet once said our nation is destroyed yet the mountains and…

— Ko Un

“A poet says, “The libraries of how many a nation did that orphan wipe clean who did not even learn how to read?”

— Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi

“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.”

— Cath Crowley