Poets Quotes

the time will come, my dearwhen I will hold you closeand all will beright againin the world.

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read

In my heart, poetry screams, “I exist!

When we were kids I begged cupid to come and shoot me.

Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again!

for all I can really do isstand herein September’s rainsavoring…soaking it all inslipping..and simplyholding on to poetryfor dear life.

love is always moving towards you

Authority forgets a dying king

let me diefrom having being drunk onindigo skies, my liver...overflowing with stars.

someday i will walk under the soul-blossom tree with my hand eternally woven in yours.

when i write of you, my deari am holding youin the most exquisiteways.

A poem in the heart is worthmore than a million dollarsin the bank account.

You touched my heart...ever so softlyand I realizedtears had never been...merely saltand the rainOh the Rain!had never been merely water.

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.

Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object.

Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.Or die trying

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.

Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.

There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.

Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while the name of the creator proudly smiles from the title.

poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?

[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)

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.

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.

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

Irish improves a poet.

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.

the gods are created by poets" --Ovid

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

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

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

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Poets aren't very useful because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.

poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.

May the nights always be aglowwith the bliss of the daywith unharmed hands and feetand kissed cheeks.

Love me...with all the abandonof a sudden wild rain.

Poetry is not a profession it's a destiny.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.