Poet Quotes

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there.

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

A poet must learn to wage war.

You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.