Evil Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

— Sharon Olds

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 is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

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