Poets Quotes

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

There can be no forced inspiration.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

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

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

There are no winners in real games.

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

When following God, Zero we never find.

God is busy and has no time for you.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

God is a cloud from which rain fell.

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.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

All good poems are victories over something.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

All those big words produce disgust today.

I learn life from the poets.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

Without space, there is no time.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

Hope without love is hopeless.

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.