When did most of us stop being poets?
– Michael St George
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- Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel. – lvaro de Campos
- Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them. – John Berryman
- Stop competing, stop judging, stop comparing, stop blaming and better you, for you. – Turcois Ominek
- 99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- It was important to tell people. To let people know that this can happen. Your child’s body can stop. Stop breathing, stop beating. – Sarah Moss
- Never stop loving while living, when you stop loving, you stop living. – Kemi Sogunle
- If you don’t stop fear, fear will stop you. Somebody’s gotta stop. My advice? Don’t let it be you. Whatever IT is. Do IT afraid – Saji Ijiyemi
- We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests. – Dan Poblocki
- You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. – Michael Pritchard
- But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? – HP Lovecraft
- Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written. – Tadeusz Konwicki
- Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for! – Ljupka Cvetanova
- She placed her hand on her chest and thought, ‘So this is what the poets write about’. – Kamand Kojouri
- Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness – Amit Gupta
- Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed. – John Fogarty
- I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. – Ralph Ellison
- I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time. – Ross Thomas
- We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. – Margaret J Wheatley
- Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. – Rollo May
- You Russians like to think you’re poets but perhaps you’re just touchy. – Jack Ryan
- What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be’s of an era long gone. – T Grassan
- While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. – Alexander Pope
- As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. – Joseph Joubert
- Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. – Peter S Beagle
- Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark. – Jorge Luis Borges
- Poets and writers don’t live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing! – Avijeet Das
- We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand! – Rossana Condoleo
- As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies. – Jessica Khoury
- poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence. – Sanober Khan
- People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way. – Charles Bukowski
- Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I’m willing to dig. – Richelle E Goodrich
- They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win. – Howard Zinn
- Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them. – Marty Rubin
- No poet can stay alive solely in his/her poetry etched in papers, it is the reader audience in whom the poets breath forever……. – SWANSH
- The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. – RH Blyth
- If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation’s glory. – Lise Arin
- Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred’s capacity to give a man purpose. – Luke Scull
- The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems. – Frithjof Schuon