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It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree. — Gerald Stern

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. — Bernie Taupin

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category. — Vanna Bonta

POETS Day, remember! Fox smiled to himself: Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday. It was all the invitation he needed. — Ian Rankin

I must say my prayers today whether I feel devout or not; but that is only as I must learn my grammar if I am ever to read the poets. — C.S. Lewis

It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script. — Louise Gluck

i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words

i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears. — Sanober Khan

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. — William Faulkner

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence. — Michael S. Harper

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls. — Bohumil Hrabal

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. — Guy Gavriel Kay

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers. — Dan Simmons

The universe is God's son. — Dejan Stojanovic

If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory. — Lise Arin

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

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 can tell the truth as they see it. It's the author's story, the author's voice. — Nikki Giovanni

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. — Robby Krieger

I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox. — R.S. Thomas

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal. — T. S. Eliot

Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies. The Orchid Affair — Lauren Willig

The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose. — Luke Scull

In everyone's life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don't have that line. — M.F. Moonzajer

Cities are built out of poet's dreams. — Marty Rubin

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. — Lucille Clifton

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

She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write ... — Thomas Hardy

Good poets borrow, great poets steal — T. S. Eliot

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. — T. S. Eliot

I am so coarse, the things the poets see
Are obstinately invisible to me — C.S. Lewis

We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures. — P.G. Wodehouse

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets. — David Pajo

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you. — Edward Hirsch

The poet's task is to give every echo a voice. — Marty Rubin

I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been. — William Empson

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. — Ernest Hemingway,

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ's body. — Dejan Stojanovic

Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object. — Mary Kinzie

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. — Russell Simmons

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. — Stephen Sondheim

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. — Wislawa Szymborska

Artists use your artistree, and poets your poetree - for your blood is my chlorophyll distilled. — S.J. Cameron

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. — John B. S. Haldane

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. — Robert Adamson

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

A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens. — George Edward Woodberry

Sorry - Quoth. It's the language of storms. They're great poets, some of them. — Scott Hawkins

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face. — Dejan Stojanovic

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.' — Sonia Sanchez

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Let's not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man's-land, halfway between dreams and reality. — Arthur Gordon

I offer you what I have my
Poverty — W.S. Merwin

My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them. — Munia Khan

All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain. — Plutarch

I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure. — Felix Dennis

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

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

POETS day," he reminded Siobhan. "Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday," she recited. — Ian Rankin

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

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. — Steven Heighton

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again. — Edward Hirsch

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

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

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers. — Katherine Applegate

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets ... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. — Jack Prelutsky

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

...the Moon, the enemy of poets...

("Merchant's Two Sons") — Giambattista Basile

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets. — Dougray Scott

We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything. — Jude Morgan

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

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. — Benjamin Franklin

One's freedom is one's love and one's love
is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary... — Duncan McNaughton

The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead. — Erica Jong

But poets don't want homes
do they?
they are not creatures of hearths and firedogs, but of heaths and ranging hounds. — A.S. Byatt

... the fisherman's daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder. — Yiannis Ritsos

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Cities get built out of poet's dreams. — Marty Rubin

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against. — Cornel West

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal. — Aberjhani

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel

Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear. — Tom Schulman

Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone. — Charles Simic

The world is God's salvation. — Dejan Stojanovic

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. — Philip Dunne

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. — Robert Frost

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it. — Sheri S. Tepper

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever. — Ben Harper