The Poet Judges Not As A Judge Judges But As The Sun Falling Around A Helpless Thing.
- Walt Whitman
Poetry Often Enters Through The Window Of Irrelevance.
- M. C. Richards
A Poem Is No Place For An Idea.
- Edgar Watson Howe
A Poet’s Hope: To Be,Like Some Valley Cheese,Local, But Prized Elsewhere.
- W. H. Auden
A Prose Writer Gets Tired Of Writing Prose, And Wants To Be A Poet. So He Begins Every Line With A Capital Letter, And Keeps On Writing Prose.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
It Was The Misfortune Of Poetry To Be Seldom Safely Enjoyed By Those Who Enjoyed It Completely; And That The Strong Feelings Which Alone Could Estimate It Truly Were The Very Feelings Which Ought To Taste It But Sparingly.
- Jane Austen
My Poems Are Hymns Of Praise To The Glory Of Life.
- Edith Sitwell
A Poet Who Reads His Verse In Public May Have Other Nasty Habits.
- Robert Heinlein
All Slang Is A Metaphor, And All Metaphor Is Poetry.
- G. K. Chesterton
Poetry Is The Deification Of Reality.
A Poet More Than Thirty Years Old Is Simply An Overgrown Child.
- H. L. Mencken
It’s Easier To Quote Poets Than To Read Them.
- Allison Barrows
You Don’t Have To Suffer To Be A Poet; Adolescence Is Enough Suffering For Anyone.
- John Ciardi
Poetry Should Please By A Fine Excess And Not By Singularity. It Should Strike The Reader As A Wording Of His Own Highest Thoughts, And Appear Almost As A Remembrance.
- John Keats
Poets Have Been Mysteriously Silent On The Subject Of Cheese.
A Poem Is Never Finished, Only Abandoned.
- Paul Valery
There Exist Only Three Beings Worthy Of Respect: The Priest, The Soldier, The Poet. To Know, To Kill, To Create.
- Charles Baudelaire
In Science One Tries To Tell People, In Such A Way As To Be Understood By Everyone, Something That No One Ever Knew Before. But In Poetry, It’s The Exact Opposite.
- Paul Dirac
The Freedom Of Poetic License.
- Cicero
Many Brave Men Lived Before Agamemnon; But All Are Overwhelmed In Eternal Night, Unwept, Unknown, Because They Lack A Sacred Poet.
- Horace
Most People Ignore Most Poetry Because Most Poetry Ignores Most People.
- Adrian Mitchell
A Poet Ought Not To Pick Nature’s Pocket. Let Him Borrow, And So Borrow As To Repay By The Very Act Of Borrowing. Examine Nature Accurately, But Write From Recollection, And Trust More To The Imagination Than The Memory.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Worst Tragedy For A Poet Is To Be Admired Through Being Misunderstood.
- Jean Cocteau
One Ought, Every Day At Least, To Hear A Little Song, Read A Good Poem, See A Fine Picture, And If It Were Possible, To Speak A Few Reasonable Words.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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