#poets

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. ↗

— Harry Chapin

#eyes #go #go away #her #knows

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#make #philosophers #poets #us #women

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#been #cheese #mysteriously #poets #silent

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#decline #i #imagine #judged #made

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#declared #drum #effective #hold #impossible

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #impossible #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. ↗

— Anita Diament

#close #compare #english #favorite #how

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. ↗

— James Dickey

#because #claim #craft #does #done

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. ↗

— Rita Dove

#butter #favorite #i #may #more

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#constantly #discovered #encounter #feel #feeling