Ancient Quote by Killah Priest

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

— Edward Hirsch

“What? Am I to be a listener only all my days? Am I never to get my word in—I that have been so often…

— Juvenal

“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept…

— William Shakespeare

I don't have an inflated opinion of how much artistic merit the poems I do have.

— Tim Key

“I am convinced that poets are toddlers in a cathedral, slobbering on wooden blocks and piling them up in the light of the stained…

— Andrew Peterson

“My Lord, you own wisdom has taught me to aspire to One even more great, more beautiful, and more closely approximate to perfection than…

— Edwin A. Abbott

“Certain poems and lines of poetry seem as solid and miraculous to me as church altars or the coronation of queens must seem to…

— Sylvia Plath

But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but…

— Ruth Pitter

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

— Michel de Montaigne

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay