Bells Quote by Lord Dunsany

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

— Mary Oliver

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the…

— Peter Davison

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

— Sharon Olds

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make…

— P. G. Wodehouse

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

— Edmund Waller

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

“A poem should curve Like the bell of a tulip Or a pistol grip”

— DJ Renegade