Cents Quote by Selima Hill

One of the great things about having your own invisible god is you can make him/her/it as big and grand as your little heart…

— Rock Cowles

As a woman growing older I've gone through that process of suddenly realising I'm invisible in the world, having not been invisible when I…

— Geraldine James

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

— Veronica Rossi

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're…

— Eileen Myles

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

— Rollo May

“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.”

— Amy King

I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a…

— Carolyn Kizer

“(1)BEING A POET is like opening a car door & exposing yourself. (2)BEING A GOOD POET is like opening the door & exposing the…

— Chocolate Waters

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is…

— Babette Deutsch

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision,…

— Bob Dylan

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

— Aleister Crowley

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of…

— Robert Morgan

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see…

— Jacob Grimm