Action Quote by Franz Wright

It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.

— May Sarton

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 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

It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

— Cornelius Eady

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

— Philip Larkin

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you…

— Socrates

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch