Poems Quote by Robert Lynd

“We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.”

— Louis Malle

“...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.”

— Michael Pollan

“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .”

— Wallace Stegner

“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.”

— Major Jackson

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Poetry is one of the easiest forms of writing; as long as you're willing to sell your soul to the world.”

— Shawna Platt (Angel Shadow

“But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men…

— Erica Jong

“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.”

— Arthur Gordon

“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.”

— Joseph McElroy

“We are all poets, really.”

— Walter Lowenfels

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron

“Poets are fools until they are kings.”

— Atticus