| Poets on Poetry |
| Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels. (William Carlos Williams) |
| It all belongs to you, all the time. The poetry is all written for you, so you can develop your light, so you can shine it on a very dark world. (Maya Angelou) |
| That which does not kill us becomes a poem. (Matt Nickel) |
| Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own. (Salvatore Quasimodo) |
| Poets are the fruitflies of literature, always conducting genetic experiments on themselves. (Tony Hoagland) |
| I shall not sink, I trust, so long as the poetic life wells up in me at intervals...and so long as my painting still interests me. (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) |
| I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. (Edgar Allan Poe) |
| From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. (Edgar Allan Poe) |
| Poetry is not a course, not a subject, not a discipline. It's a way of being in the world. (Jack Ridl) |
| The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. (William Shakespeare) |
| We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. (William Wordsworth) |
| Who am I? I'm a poet. What do I do? I write. How do I live? I live. (Giacomo Puccini, from La Boheme) |
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| Poetry is the only verity -- the expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal -- and not after the apparent. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |