Poet Quotes
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Herbert Read
English art historian
We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, playwright, and composer
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell Lowell
American Romantic poet,
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
James Fenton
Professor
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
Hart Crane
American poet
If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.
John Cooper Clarke
English
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
Eavan Boland
Irish poet
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron
Baron Byron
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.
James Fenton
Professor
The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.
Luis Alberto Urrea
Mexican-American poet
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
Ben Okri
Nigerian-British poet
I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya Angelou
American memoirist
To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.
Lucy Larcom
American teacher
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Audre Lorde
American writer
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
Norman Maccaig
Scottish poet
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
James Weldon Johnson
American writer and civil rights activist
I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions.
Eileen Myles
American poet
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