Poets Quotes

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...

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is pro...

Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anythi...

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and p...

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct ...

Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable i...

Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a gr...

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved agai...

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate exper...

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely ...

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed tha...

The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images ...

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have w...

I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. Th...

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved the Inquisition might have let him alone.

Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.

It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the bu...

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat,...

And there he would lie all day long on the lawn brooding presumably over his poetry, till he reminde...

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and ge...

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought...

Poetry makes nothing happen.

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies w...

In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

A change of style is a change of meaning.

A poem is a meteor.

From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then,Oriole, also, may be reali...

We say God and the imagination are one . . .How high that highest candle lights the dark.

A pear should come to the table popped with juice,Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On termsLi...

Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lus...

Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me...

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

The words of the true poems give you more than poems, they give you to form for yourself poems, reli...