Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Poetry Quotes
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
But the world will know him mainly as that rare thing, a poet. And when the broadcasts and the manias, the economics and the sense of justice are but footnotes in some learned history, men will remember him because he was one of the few to whom is granted the gift of giving words to […]
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet.
Poets tell many lies.
No poet I’ve ever heard of has written an ode to a load of manure.
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Of all my generation, he (T. S. Eliot) most admired Auden, but once when we were praising Auden’s criticism, he said: “All the same, he’s not a scholar.” – “Why?” – “I was reading an Introduction by him to a selection of Tennyson’s poems, in which he says that Tennyson is the stupidest poet in […]
The finest cowboy poems rarely cut it on the printed page. They must be recited the way they are written, from the noggin, with feeling. They’re like fine wine. They must breathe, especially if they’ve been bottled up too long.
Thy verses are eternal, O my friend, For he who reads them, reads them to no end.
