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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring.

One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things really made the rounds. I would meet people and they'd quote my poems to me. It's great.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.

Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.

Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself--a Black woman warrior poet doing my work--come to ask you, are you doing yours?

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

Poets are born, not paid.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

Science is not addressed to poets.

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.