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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
So have all sages said, all poets sung.
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.
Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.
You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets.
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.
Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.
I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy
From the great Nature that exists in works
Of mighty Poets.
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.
Don't poets know it
Better than others?
God can't be always everywhere: and, so,
Invented Mothers
Poets, the first instructors of mankind,
Brought all things to the proper native use.
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.
All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.
Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
