684 Quotes About Poets

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

I sat at the kitchen table, staring at the blind white blankness in front of me, and slowly, like a clear spring welling up from the common earth, the poem rose and spread and filled me, unstoppable as flood water, technique unknotting even as it ran, like snags rolled away on the flood. When it comes, it is worth everything in the world.

Children picking up our bonesWill never know that these were onceAs quick as foxes on the hill;

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

Between roars the lion purrs.