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Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles. — Socrates

The engineers of the future will be poets. — Terence McKenna

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. — Oscar Wilde

Poets and children," said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that. — Patricia MacLachlan

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His. — Socrates

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

Hope is a most beautiful drug. — Jeremy Mercer

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? — Sir John Davies

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness — Amit Gupta

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. — James Broughton

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

Science is not addressed to poets. — George Henry Lewes

[L]ibrarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous. — Ian Sansom

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

68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share. — Roberto Bolano

This day's nothingness
as if from spite
became a flame
and scorched the lips
of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski

All great poets have been men of great knowledge. — William C. Bryant

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. — Horace

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

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

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

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

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. — John Lancaster Spalding

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest. — Mary MacLane

There were poets before Homer. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others. — Octavio Paz

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are
the real boundaries. — Katy Lederer

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts. — Janet Malcolm

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon

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

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly: they exploit them — Friedrich Nietzsche

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland — Jacqueline Carey

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

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

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. — Ambrose Bierce

A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better. — Richard Hugo

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

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

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi

Poets are everywhere now, but they talk only to each other — Paul Auster

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it. — Mary Oliver

Them lady poets must not marry, pal. — John Berryman

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

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

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome

Poets only write the truth. — Shannon Lynette

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

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

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

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana

Who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets? — Margaret Cavendish

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

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions ... — David Hume

There are anonymous poems and poets without poems. — Dejan Stojanovic

Don't forget to put wax in your ears; we are going to hunt poets', — Alejandro Cordoba Sosa

I learn life from the poets. — Germaine De Stael

Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that. — Enya

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

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more. — Sara Sheridan

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

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. — James Russell Lowell

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

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them. — Patti Smith

If we were poets, we'd starve on words. — Charlie LeDuff

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

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'. — Kamand Kojouri

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me. — David Walton

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice. — John Burnside

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

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. — W. H. Auden

Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate. — Nicholas Roe

But all of a sudden they're poets, right, like that's all it takes - being in love. — David Sedaris

I know who the great poets are. — Jack Kerouac

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. — N.H. Kleinbaum

The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety. — Melissa Lane

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

For the way of the comets is the poet's way. — Marina Tsvetaeva

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

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

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

sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this - the poets declare!2 Science — Huston Smith

We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result. — Mick McCarthy