Poets Quotes
E.M. Forster
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
3180Jess C. Scott
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
4590 Dejan Stojanovic
The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
4597 Julian Barnes
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
2638 Gustave Flaubert
When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow.
1558 W.H. Auden
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
2150 Dejan Stojanovic
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
4554 Dejan Stojanovic
If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.
2106 Marty Rubin
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
1281 Jenim Dibie
I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.
1878 Jenim Dibie
I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page.
1574 Munia Khan
A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.
3717 Lisa Washington
GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.
2515 Michael Bassey Johnson
If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!
2498 Jenim Dibie
The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.
1372 Brandi L. Bates
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
4349 Álvaro De Campos
Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.
1438 Jacob Nordby
Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
3774 Brandi L. Bates
Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
3456 Munia Khan
Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works
3324 Harley King
What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.
4543 Sara Sheridan
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.
4670 Dejan Stojanovic
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
4780 Dejan Stojanovic
This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
1475 Dejan Stojanovic
How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
2999 Dejan Stojanovic
Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
4397 Dejan Stojanovic
When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
3938 Dejan Stojanovic
Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.
1949 Denis De Rougemont
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.
4036 Amit Gupta
Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness
4443 Jane Kenyon
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
2927 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is the key.
3258 Dejan Stojanovic
You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
2816 Arthur Schopenhauer
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
1658 Soren Kierkegaard
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
3263 William Knox
Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
2113 Rick Yancey
Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.
1583 Carolyn Kizer
Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.
2521 Ernest Hemingway
I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima
1807 Salman Rushdie
A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
3008 Walt Whitman
I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
1965 Pablo Neruda
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
2786 Greg Bear
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings - stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
4640 Mary Karr
I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet - buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture - than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.
3077 Yiannis Ritsos
When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger;
invisible hands draw back the curtains,
a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust
of the piano...
4338 Wendell Berry
Again I resume the long
lesson: how small a thing
can be pleasing, how little
in this hard world it takes
to satisfy the mind
and bring it to its rest.
4928 Aberjhani
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
1095 William H. Gass
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
1185 Wallace Stevens
A pear should come to the table popped with juice,
Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms
Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.
4765 André Breton
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.
1540 Helen Vendler
One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
1159 A.E. Housman
Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
1429 Annie Finch
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.
1078 W.H. Auden
no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
3682 Robert Hass
August is dust here. Drought
stuns the road,
but juice gathers in the berries.
3821 Robert Graves
There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either
1616 Seamus Heaney
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
2128 William Edgar Stafford
This dream the world is having about itself
includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail,
a groove in the grass my father showed us all
one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell
something better about to happen.
2453 Julio Cortázar
I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.
1477 Yiannis Ritsos
… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.
2038 Soren Kierkegaard
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People corwd around the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.
1334 David J. Delaney
A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.
2550 Annie Finch
the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.
3687 Kathleen Driskell
I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have
but the past to parent us?
1843 Annie Finch
. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see it or feel it, it is there, shaping how we hear.
1873 Aberjhani
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
1969 Robert Frost
Nor is there wanting in the press
Some spirit to stand simply forth,
Heroic in it nakedness,
Against the uttermost of earth.
The tale of earth's unhonored things
Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;
And the mind whirls and the heart sings,
And a shout greets the daring one.
2282 Emma Ghent Curtis
Behold yon rough and flinty road
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore.
1470 Helen Vendler
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
3284 Dara Weir
A single wire hanger on a nail by itself
Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor
Is too gloomy for words.
1010 Lucia Perillo
Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat?
Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?
1294 Lucia Perillo
I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.
1938 
