Favorite Poets Quotes & Sayings

Not anyone who says "I'm going to be
careful and smart in the matters of love,"
who says, "I'm going to choose slowly,"
but only those lovers who didn't choose at all
but were, as it were, chosen
by something invisible
and powerful and uncontrollable
and beautiful and possibly even
unsuitable--
only those know what I'm talking about
in this talking about love. — Mary Oliver

I'm sorry Sandstorm" he murmured. "I never meant to hurt you" His voice barely more than a whisper, he added,"I love you."
Sandstorm's eyes glowed."I love you too,Fireheart. — Erin Hunter

I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book. — Victoria Chang

Life is easier than you'd think;all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris — Susanne Matthews

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource. — John Keats

an Urdu couplet by one of his favorite poets, Mir Taqi Mir: Jis sar ko ghurur aaj hai yaan taj-vari ka Kal uss pe yahin shor hai phir nauhagari ka The head which today proudly flaunts a crown Will tomorrow, right here, in lamentation drown — Arundhati Roy

He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear; — Neil Gaiman

Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are. — Laozi

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?' — Joy Covey

I've never worried about age. — Jeanne Moreau

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie. — Robin Williams

Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do. — P. J. O'Rourke

He who is too well off is always longing for something new. — Jacob Grimm

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. — Rita Dove

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. — Anita Diament

There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don't think that's going to happen. — Eric Horvitz

I've always wanted to shoot a good percentage for my team, because I'm the point guard, and I can take fewer shots, still score more, so that I can get my teammates feeling good about themselves. That was always my feeling - that if I shoot a high percentage, I don't have to shoot a ton. — Steve Nash

That being said, some of my favorite poets are extremely funny. The aforementioned Matt Rohrer, for instance. Mary Ruefle. James Tate might be the best example of someone who is systematically misread because he can be hilarious. In his poems, as in all great funny poems, the humor is one very appealing version of the surprise and associative movement that is at the heart of all poetry. — Matthew Zapruder

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one. — Jake Shimabukuro

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel

So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching. — John R.W. Stott

As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever. — Richard M. Nixon