“The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."”
Robert Penn Warren
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Oscar Wilde
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.”
William Carlos Williams
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
“God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us”
Peter Antenberg
“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
G. K. Chesterton
