The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted.
Poetry Quotes
Good poets are like angels of Heaven.
He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks.
I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Every true poet is inevitably a Columbus.
If it wasn’t for rap there would be no poetry in America. I think we went directly from Walt Whitman to Ice-T.
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
If you know what you are going to write when you’re writing a poem, it’s going to be average.
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
