684 Quotes About Poets

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

Sunbathe from within.

I’ve learned that I am not just a poet, that poets are not just poets. If I could tell my younger self one thing about being a poet...I’d tell her that we contain multitudes.” @Nic_Sealey

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

We are the only poets,” Emily told Susan, “and everyone else is prose.

How do I forget all this hurt and pain in the past?How do I forget the last year that has passed?How do I know that everything will be alright?Is there a light at the end of this tunnel, so bright?Will everything work out in the end?Will I ever be able to love again?Will this feeling and regret and guilt wilt?How long will it take for my heart to heal?

I close my eyes and say a prayer, That tonight you’ll be held. I lift you up to the spare pairOf shoulders that can’t be felled.Tonight, as you sleep,I pray your worries are wiped away.May you wake up and not weep, For joy will come in the day.Let the bridge cover your worries,Let the rain wash away the fear.Let the shoulders hold your furies.Let the sunshine bring you cheer. Shoulders holding you high.Arms shielding you from danger.May you never have to cry,On top of the mountainous glacier.