Poets Quotes

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. - Mason Cooley

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. - Roger McGough

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. - Antonin Artaud

Writers and spoke-word artists will write something in response to a work in the exhibition and share what they wrote. It's open to writers, poets and storytellers. - Terri Thomas

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets. - Angela King

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. - Malcolm De Chazal

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. - Virginia Woolf

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere. - Guillaume Apollinaire

Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion amongst them hath his mistress. - Robert Burton

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country. - Karl Philipp Moritz