Poets Quotes

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

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

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

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

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

I am that merry wanderer of the night.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poets sing our human music for us.

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

Either you will be you or you will not be at all.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

Love is almost never simple.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

A change of style is a change of meaning.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

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

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.