The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.
We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.
Academia is a graveyard of poets.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.
God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets.
It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from happening. Yet I believe that even if poetry did not do this, it would be vital to our survival.
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
