684 Quotes About Poets

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

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

That society must to listen,the real truth;for that,nature has her sequel shifts,thus she makes her sensible experiments around the earth—with her enduring laws to obey while she moves.

Poets make the best topographers.

I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them.

A poet if anything must be a poet and far more than just a writer of words. The poet is the storyteller, the shaman, the jester and the rogue. The poet lives in the world of language and imagination, love, death & obsession and yet still sees the universe in the smallest of everyday things that we merely take for granted.

we get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.