Top 1200 Poets Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.

Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.