Communicate Quote by Henry Rollins

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..

— Ogden Nash

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity…

— Randall Jarrell

“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that…

— T.S. Eliot

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

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 soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

— Margaret Cavendish

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a…

— Sam Hamill

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many…

— Plato

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore