Poet Quotes

I hope you are still writing things that no one else will ever see.

You don’t have to be a poet, you don’t have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

You took my heart, hope, love, and trust when you left but you gave me good poetry.

You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

We become immortal through our art.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Even the pages I ink crave your name.