684 Quotes About Poets

it was the kind of moonthat I would want to send back to my ancestorsand gift to my descendantsso they know that I too,have been bruised...by beauty.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?

Poets are cut from a tender cloth that covers our world in beauty