(367 quotes found)
“I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.”
B. K. Sandwell
“Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.”
Angela King
“I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, 'I love my husband, I love my wife,' but I believe they really mean they're in love with their husband or wife, which is quite different from loving your dog. I loved her, I thought she was charming. I respected her intellect She could get a rock to follow her down the road. She was captivating. But there was a terrifying side to her that you would never want to rouse. Hopefully, it could be dampened and eased as she had a better life for the first time in her life.”
Robert Blake
“Our sage and serious poet Spenser.”
John Milton
“Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.”
Robert Adamson
“I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.”
“I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.”
John Keats
“In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.”
Robby Krieger
“The point is that Robert Hunter is a post-modern poet who takes fragments that he inherited from other sources and melds them into new stories, ... What David Dodd has done is the detective work in tracing where those fragments came from.”
Dennis McNally
“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
John Dryden
