684 Quotes About Poets

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store;For Life is just an employer,He gives you what you ask,But once you have set the wages,Why, you must bear the task.I worked for a menial's hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have paid.

Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

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

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

I think I’ll be happier writing with no money than not writing with a lot of money.

Hope without love is hopeless.