Poets Quotes - Page 2

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

All those big words produce disgust today.

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

The universe is God's son.

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.