Ahead Quote by Jim Jarmusch

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

— Jim Jarmusch

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

— Amy Lowell

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

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

— Alphonse Daudet

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

— Plato

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our…

— Jane Hirshfield