684 Quotes About Poets

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

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.

Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood.

I am filled time and againwith a heart-aching wonder when I thinkof the fireand frost of memoriesof the everlastingnessof lovethe solace of familyand the power of prayer.

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

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

We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.