Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't.
Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.
Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit
You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.
I pen you words from my heartneither paper nor pen would doas I lay them out in flowery fontswhat more could you ask foras I am writing in your heartthe love that I want to endureI am no Keats nor am...
Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!
All things want to float.
Authority forgets a dying king
A poem in the heart is worthmore than a million dollarsin the bank account.
If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told me - that with himself also, the early freshness o...
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
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.
the gods are created by poets" --Ovid
I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.
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