Poets Quotes

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

Dejan Stojanovic

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

Jane Kenyon

Poets are damned but see with the eyes of angels.

Allen Ginsberg

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

Oscar Wilde

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

Friedrich Nietzsche

Her in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

Jane Austen

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

Henry David Thoreau

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde