684 Quotes About Poets

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then,Oriole, also, may be realist.

. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.

О любви мы знаем немного. Любовь - что груша. Она сладкая и имеет определенную форму. Но попробуйте дать определение формы груши!© Лютик "Полвека поэзии

. . . a racer snake / slicking off / like a signature into the weeds.

A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on the top of St Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet

Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.