(367 quotes found)
“Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.”
Stevie Nicks
“The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”
William Wordsworth
“There was never a poet who had not the heart in the right place”
“REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The true poem is the poet's mind.”
“RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp.”
“HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.”
“There is a pleasure in poetic painsWhich only poets know.”
William Cowper
“There are poets and there are grownups.”
Jean Cocteau
