Poets Quotes

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

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

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Poets are born, not paid.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.