Poet Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and…

— Heraclitus

“In the land of poetry commentary, you will encounter those who take poetry too lightly, and those who take poetry too seriously. The former…

— Jasper Sole

“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

— William Butler Yeats

“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop…

— Salman Rushdie

“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.”

— China Miéville

“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present…

— Robert E. Howard

“It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their…

— Randall Jarell

“If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.”

— A. H. Septimius

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz