684 Quotes About Poets

Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat?Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?

I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.

We say God and the imagination are one . . .How high that highest candle lights the dark.

With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say.

Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.

Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose")