684 Quotes About Poets

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

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.

Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail.

There is no moral to my song,I praise no right, I blame no wrong;I tell of things that I have seen,I show the man that I have beenAs simply as a poet canWho knows himself poet and man.

Poets and children," said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that.

My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, ‘You are a genius, my love!’ To which I replied, ‘My girl,’ whispering, ‘Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.

My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them.

give mea pillow of strongever-dependable shouldersthat i can bury my head in.

Let's rainbow this moment; it's not like we have forever.