Poets Quotes

Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come aga...

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen du...

Poets sing our human music for us.

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those tha...

On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, W...

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been adde...

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner w...

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, mu...

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousan...

His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that...

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he becam...

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live with...

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but t...

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but t...

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but t...

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but t...

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had bee...

We must listen to poets.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

That's a poet.''I thought you said it was a bo-at.''Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?''Why,...

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since ...

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old h...

When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell sue...

Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the ...

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and beco...

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, t...

Men of dreams, the lovers and the poets, are better in most things than the men of my sort; the men ...

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telepho...

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet bec...

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the ...

A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its o...

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment...

As to whether a poem has been written by a great poet or not, this is important only to historians o...

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

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

Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the vis...

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist ...

Thirsty for being, the poet ceaselessly reaches out to reality, seeking with the indefatigable harpo...

He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it...

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

For the way of the comets is the poet's way.

The eclipses ofpoets are not foretold in the calender.

I’m a maker of ballads right prettyI write them right here in the streetYou can buy them all over th...

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participa...

I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to ...

What was it Like?""What was what like?" he said, although he knew."Quick, I imagine. But you must ha...

When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall g...

It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication o...

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across th...

Poets aren't very useful because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.

...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimica...

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poet...

Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope...""Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves...

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from th...

I had no more alphabetthan the journeying of the swallows,the pure and tiny waterof the small, fiery...

Oh, there are no living poets, Miss Van Damn. We're not entirely sure there ever were. They've found...

A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his hear...

The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert wood...

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise every...

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

All things want to float.

Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage ...

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can pene...

Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding h...

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by ...

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out towar...

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against th...

There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my ...

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is t...

But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude...

Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointles...

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to ...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiog...

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly ...

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape...