Quotes about Poets

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Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. — William Butler Yeats
Poetry is a mug's game. — T. S. Eliot
A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an eff — Robert Frost
An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels abou — John Masefield
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here. — Phyllis McGinley
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully. — Aristotle
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost
To have great poets there must be great audiences too. — Walt Whitman
Poets aren't very useful because they aren't consumeful or very produceful. — Ogden Nash
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. — Robert Frost
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment. — Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air. — Carl Sandburg
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right. — Rudyard Kipling
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. — Maxwell Bodenheim
For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. — Sylvia Plath
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. — Walt Whitman