Poets Quotes

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

– H. P. Lovecraft

I’ve been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

– Jack Prelutsky

Poets are born, not paid.

– Addison Mizner

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

– Ameen Rihani

Science is not addressed to poets.

– George Henry Lewes

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

– Peter Davison

If poets were realistic, they wouldn’t be poets.

– Peter Davison

I’m an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

– Roy Harper

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

– Terrance Hayes

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

– Walt Whitman

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

– Stan Brakhage