(367 quotes found)
“He was a poet and a storyteller and a good friend of ours. We all knew this was coming, hoping that it wouldn't, but yesterday afternoon in California the inevitable happened. So we're very sad about that.”
David Letterman
“The English kill off all their poets by the time they're forty”
D.H. Lawrence
“The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being only four years old.”
Christopher Morley
“As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.”
Oscar Wilde
“The waves beside them danced; but they/ Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:/ A poet could not but be gay,/ In such a jocund company.”
William Wordsworth
“And mighty poets in their misery dead.”
“This year's competition for the Lilly Fellowships was fiercely competitive, and the two poets who emerged as winners are already writing at an extraordinarily high level, ... I expect readers will be hearing a lot from these two poets in the years to come.”
Christian Wiman
“War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull”
Mark Twain
“Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.”
Henry R. Luce
“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
Aristotle
