Poetry and Poets Quotes
76 quotations about Poetry and Poets
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Every old poem is sacred.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
A good poet's made as well as born.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
Poets are born, not paid.
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Authors on Poetry and Poets
Aristotle
W. H. Auden
John Barrymore
Charles Baudelaire
Maxwell Bodenheim
Gwendolyn Brooks
Lord Byron
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Jean Cocteau
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Emily Dickinson
Denis Diderot
Max Eastman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Farquhar
Eugene Field
Robert Fitzgerald
C. Fitzhugh
Gustave Flaubert