Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.
For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent.
Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonec...
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages withou...
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their po...
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.
With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s alb...
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.
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 t...
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
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.
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
There is no moral to my song,I praise no right, I blame no wrong;I tell of things that I have seen,I show the man that I have beenAs simply as a poet canWho knows himself poet and man.