Compliments Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Many of my poems are not sexual.

— Thom Gunn

A gay poet is just one of the very many poet gays of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

— Maya Angelou

I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

— William Butler Yeats

“Your heart new to the world, and full of warmth and sensibility, receives its first impressions with eagerness. Artless yourself, you suspect not others…

— Matthew Lewis

There are either poems about sex/love or God.

— Robert Hass

WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.

— Michael Drayton

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

— Lemon Andersen

“Think not, O Mortal, vainly gay. That Thou from Human Woes is free, The bitter cup I drink today, Tomorrow may be drunk by…

— Jane Grey

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer

Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.

— Frank Fairfield

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche