Lightning Quote by James Dickey

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.”

— James Dickey

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

— Randall Jarrell

“A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times.”

— Anonymous

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall,…

— Sylvia Plath

Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

— Anne Sexton

“It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.”

— Munia Khan

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”

— Hermann Hesse

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

— Hafez