684 Quotes About Poets

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

You are the ache in my heart!

Either you will be you or you will not be at all.

A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.

wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.

Poets are always sad. And ironically poets write to make others happy.

Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.