Poet Quotes

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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.

And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?

You can’t be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

And its true I needed you to break my heart to become somewhat of a poet.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

An artist paints to forget while a poet writes to remember.

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

And then there’s you: my greatest reminder that god is a poet, too.