Poet Quotes

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

There were things that he wanted to write on paper, about everything he couldn’t tell her.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that’s Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, Phillis Wheatley.

It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

I’m a drunk poet; and I guess maybe I sipped too much of what I couldn’t buy of her.

A poet is the most beautiful poem, never read out loud by anyone.