Good poets are like angels of Heaven.
Poetry Quotes
He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks.
I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Every true poet is inevitably a Columbus.
If it wasn’t for rap there would be no poetry in America. I think we went directly from Walt Whitman to Ice-T.
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
It is the dissatisfaction with empiric evidence that makes the poet and the mystic, for it is the lyric as well as the Bachantic impulse… Its purest form is probably manifested by children and birds in their rhapsodic moments of flight and play, especially during the last few minutes of pale blue summer dusk before […]
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
