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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival. — Pat Conroy

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. — Antonio Machado

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists. — Mahatma Gandhi

The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired. — Paul Eluard

There are poets who sing you to sleep
and poets who ready you for war
and I want to be both. — Ashe Vernon

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness. — Russell Simmons

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. — Honore De Balzac

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. — Daniel Radcliffe

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. — Adrian Mitchell

There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.
Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable. — Toba Beta

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
Who give her aspirations wings,
And to the wiser law of music sway
Her wild imaginings. — James Russell Lowell

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life. — Homer

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. — George Eliot

He was one of those poets who escaped the terrors of writing by writing all the time. — James Baldwin

I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you're always an outsider... — Natasha Trethewey

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare. — Joseph Campbell

Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that are not to be mentioned. — Marcel Proust

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. — John Drinkwater

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world. — Jackie Kennedy

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

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. — Jason Silva

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

Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. — Philip James Bailey

It's a thorny road for dreamers and poets who fantasize of majestic places and deep-seated desires of the heart that their hands may never hold. — Terry A. O'Neal

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body? — Roland Barthes

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. — K.J. Parker

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. — Nicholson Baker

Don't pay attention to those who offer too much. — Dejan Stojanovic

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways. — Helen Vendler

When one would ask most modern artists, poets, writers and other status quo fueled semi-intellectuals who Machiavelli was - was that an opera singer? — Martijn Benders

Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets. — Ezra Pound

I know who the great poets are. — Jack Kerouac

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. — Tom Robbins

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. — Craig Brown

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. — Dudley Moore

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write. — Russell Simmons

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. — Robert Hass

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

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely? — Honore De Balzac

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. — William Bernbach

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. — John Fowles

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. — Alphonse Daudet

Who, except the poets, reads poetry? — Babette Deutsch

A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry. — David J. Delaney

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet. — Grace Zabriskie

Poets are band leaders who have failed. — Ayi Kwei Armah

Who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets? — Margaret Cavendish

There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the songs that must be sung. — Joyce Kilmer

Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength. — Pindar

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language. — Natasha Trethewey