Bees Quote by Mason Cooley

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the…

— Walter Scott

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

— Eyedea

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

— John Crowe Ransom

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

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

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

— Sharon Olds

“. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see…

— Annie Finch

We must listen to poets.

— Gaston Bachelard

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton