Poets Quotes

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...

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...

Again I resume the longlesson: how small a thingcan be pleasing, how littlein this hard world it tak...

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, the...

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder...

Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill,And while the sun and moo...

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications gener...

Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this re...

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscur...

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire.He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he...

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