Poets Quotes

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

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

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

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I can devour and selfishly indulge in any time I want. ♥-Nina Jean Slack

On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.

Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

the gods are created by poets" --Ovid

Hope is a most beautiful drug.

Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!

may this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to.

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

#Writers, #artists, and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

Irish improves a poet.

It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.

When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind.

We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever.

[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality.(cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

Authority forgets a dying king

you make autumn misttaste like champagne and turn winter raininto the elixir of life itself.