Poets tell many lies.
Poetry Quotes
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.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all those incorporeal spirits, […]
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive […]
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
A rapper is a poet on steroids. Poets slow down the world, causing others to see it; rappers take on the commercial pace of the world.
