Poetry Quote by James Shapiro

“Jonson wrote a poem and called his son His best piece of poetrie A lovely line a little loathsome I loved that poem once…

— Edward Hirsch

“THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently…

— Ben Jonson

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

— John Dryden

“There is a very simple reason why Lion El'Jonson did not take part in the final battles of the Horus Heresy. It is beautifully…

— Gav Thorpe

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in…

— Anonymous

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

— James Broughton

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

— John Burroughs

Poets are born, not paid.

— Addison Mizner

“People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of angels.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

poets are born knowing the language of angels

— Madeleine L'Engle