Books Quote by John Dryden

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the…

— Hakim Bey

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.

— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

— Nina Bawden

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

— T. S. Eliot

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

— James Joyce

“He robbed him of a great deal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn books written in verse…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

— Rod McKuen

“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.”

— Frederick Smock

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

The crown of literature is poetry.

— W. Somerset Maugham