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You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself. — Dejan Stojanovic

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming. — Dejan Stojanovic

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of. — Shannon L. Alder

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the. — Henry David Thoreau

The universe is God's son. — Dejan Stojanovic

A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account. — Sanober Khan

NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like.
Dangerous by Shannon Hale — Shannon Hale

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. — Carolyn Kizer

Advice to Young Poets
Never pretend
to be a unicorn
by sticking a plunger on your head. — Martin Espada

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. — James Broughton

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. — Clive James

A single wire hanger on a nail by itself
Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor
Is too gloomy for words. — Dara Weir

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. — Horace

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

Be a poet in action as well as in words. — Marty Rubin

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? — George Crabbe

The Poets light but Lamps-
Themselves-go out- — Emily Dickinson

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. — Jenim Dibie

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave. — Edward Hirsch

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley

Life is only a flicker of melted ice. — Dejan Stojanovic

a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. — Sanober Khan

some words
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. — Sanober Khan

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

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty ... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189) — Mev Puleo

The world will not be saved by poets or poetry. — Marty Rubin

I said, the poets are there
I hear them singing and lying
around their round table
and around me still. — Anne Sexton

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud

What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming? — Aberjhani

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops. — James Fenton

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. — Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. — Edward Hirsch

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands. — Bob Dylan

Poetry can take you places that were once only traveled by your imagination. — Delano Johnson

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. — Dejan Stojanovic

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. — Dejan Stojanovic

someday i will walk
under the soul-blossom tree
with my hand eternally woven in yours. — Sanober Khan

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

God is busy and has no time for you. — Dejan Stojanovic

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret. — Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value. — Major Jackson

If I began to draw
myself away from you

we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. — Sanober Khan

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions. — Dejan Stojanovic

Can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs ... — Brandi L. Bates

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. — Dejan Stojanovic

A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings. — Dejan Stojanovic

May our twilights mix together
like breath and breathlessness. — Sanober Khan

There were poets before Homer. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

How does one say something new and not retell? — Dejan Stojanovic

the time will come, my dear
when I will hold you close

and all will be
right again
in the world. — Sanober Khan

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf

Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't. — Sanober Khan

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe. — Comte De Lautreamont

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost

A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. — Salman Rushdie

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

But as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry. — Charles Bukowski

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone. — T. Grassan

Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...

as orchids
blooming in clouds. — Sanober Khan

They grew; they did not talk about growing. — Dejan Stojanovic

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. — Carl Sandburg

There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. — Dejan Stojanovic

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? — Dejan Stojanovic

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. — Anne Stevenson

We must listen to poets. — Gaston Bachelard

That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do not endure. — David McDonald