“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
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Source: Crazy Wisdom
“Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.”
Source: Memoirs of Celebrated Characters
Source: A Passage to India
Source: The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933
Source: Notes towards the Definition of Culture
“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Source: Selected Letters
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.”
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”
“The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.”
“That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.”
“I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.”
Source: Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers
“Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.”
Source: Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims
“A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.”
“Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.”
“The true poet dreams being awake.”
Source: Essays of Elia
Source: Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws
Source: Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems
“There were poets before Homer.”
Source: Brutus, with an English translation
“Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)
“Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.”
“Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
Source: Windows that open inward: images of Chile
“For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”
“I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.”
“Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.”
Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute
“All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.”
Source: The Enigma of Stonehenge
“Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.”