Poets Quotes

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?

The American public does not know poets exist.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Science is not addressed to poets.

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Poets are born, not paid.