Top Poets Quotes

i want to be in love with youthe same wayi am in love with the moonwith the lightshiningout of its soul.

Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's what it'll get. One should never protest against...

I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store;For Life is just an employer,He gives you what you ask,But once you have set the...

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

If you're an artist, always keep at it, there will be someone out there who sees the universe and soul in what you've created. Maybe they can't afford it, but it calls them like the siren in a sea, an...

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.

Poets sing our human music for us.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.

funny how our heartswere designed to loveso fiercely.but break ever so gently.

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

You either a poet or a homosexual. Oh, shit, that's fucked up. Why can't I be both?

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence.

I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reaso...

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a litt...

Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums.

How strange and ironic it is- all the words i long to sayare lost in words.

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.