#poets

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#film-makers #i #i am #influenced #more

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#crazy #like #loony #loony bin #poet

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ↗

— Heraclitus

#assistance #greek #i #i am #librarians

Poets wish to profit or to please. ↗

— Horace

#poets #profit #wish

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #literature #national-poetry-month #poem-in-your-pocket-day #poetry

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#die #hands #hearts #nations #poets

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#poets #romance #experience

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#poetry #poets

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#ever #francis #greatest #hardly #mentioned

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they? ↗

— Robert Adamson

#best #certainly #confused #days #encouraging