Animals Quote by Rollo May

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

— Rollo May

“But poets don't want homes -- do they? -- they are not creatures of hearths and firedogs, but of heaths and ranging hounds.”

— A.S. Byatt

“Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--”

— William Wordsworth

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

— Philip James Bailey

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have…

— Jack Prelutsky

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how often birds…

— Kenn Kaufman

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

— Joseph Campbell

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

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

— Joseph Campbell

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

— Mahatma Gandhi