Poets aren't very useful because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.
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...
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.
Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.
We are all poets, really.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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 i...
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...
A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.
One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."
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