Poetry Quote by Roy Campbell

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are…

— William C. Bryant

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are…

— Anonymous

“A smile, like the poet's muse, Inspires passion in the lover's heart”

— Alex Z. Moores

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should…

— Leslie Fiedler

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if…

— Anonymous

I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.

— Kate Nash

The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom-or…

— Vivian Gornick

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself…

— Mary Karr

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

— Luis Bunuel

And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of…

— Richard Selzer

“...they wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to find a…

— Terry Pratchett

“He kisses like a poet. Like he's writing poems on my lips.”

— Veronica Rossi