(367 quotes found)
“God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.”
Robert Browning
“kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect”
Maya Angelou
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
Socrates
“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Poets are born, not made”
American Proverb
“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obsessed by Making.”
E. E. Cummings
“Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.”
Bill Cosby
“The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.”
T.S. Eliot
“From my thirteenth year on, it was clear to me that I wanted to be a poet or nothing at all.”
Hermann Hesse
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?”
Richard Feynman
