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Poets and children," said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that.
— Patricia MacLachlan
Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?
— C.S. Lewis
Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the very leaves under which they pass
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets,
— Walt Whitman
I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency,
— Eugene McCarthy
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
— Muriel Rukeyser
Poets are the most difficult creatures to work with.
— Suman Pokhrel
Cities are built out of poet's dreams.
— Marty Rubin
Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again!
— Delano Johnson
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
— Jean Cocteau
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
— Marty Rubin
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
— Dejan Stojanovic
For the way of the comets is the poet's way.
— Marina Tsvetaeva
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.
— Mieczyslaw Jastrun
Can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs ...
— Brandi L. Bates
It's not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
— Paul Valery
If I began to draw
myself away from you
we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. — Sanober Khan
myself away from you
we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. — Sanober Khan
Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.
— Randall Jarrell
Maybe poets get to you best when you're sort of dreaming, when you're hardly there at all.
— David Almond
Poets make the best topographers.
— W.G. Hoskins
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
— Billy Collins
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.
— Henry David Thoreau
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.
— Harriet Monroe
Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.
— Jenim Dibie
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
— Jim Jarmusch
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
— James Russell Lowell
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.
— Sylvia Plath
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today.
— Delano Johnson
Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.
— James Russell Lowell
Don't forget to put wax in your ears; we are going to hunt poets',
— Alejandro Cordoba Sosa
There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions ...
— David Hume
Poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.
— Major Jackson
As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God is busy and has no time for you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?
— Margaret Cavendish
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
— George Santayana
He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.
— Dejan Stojanovic
someday i will walk
under the soul-blossom tree
with my hand eternally woven in yours. — Sanober Khan
under the soul-blossom tree
with my hand eternally woven in yours. — Sanober Khan
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.
— Patti Smith
I learn life from the poets.
— Germaine De Stael
If we were poets, we'd starve on words.
— Charlie LeDuff