“I want my work to be in unconventional places. You write in poetry journals to get fellowships and grants, not for an audience. My readers don’t read journals — they are homegirls that normally wouldn’t be interested in poetry or they’ve always read poetry and find me.”— Yesika Salgado, latimes.com
“If "The Star-Spangled Banner" boldly proclaims the country's greatness as fact, "America the Beautiful" is more aspirational. Bates is not asking whether the flag has survived an artillery strike. Rather, this young feminist poet, who had just emerged from a deep depression, is asking if the nation,…”— ERIC WESTERVELT, npr.org
“And no one knew what I was missing until a doctor gave me a handful of Lego and said to put a brick on the table every time I heard a sound.”— Raymond Antrobus, Sian Cain, theguardian.com
“i don’t need you to write my story. i write every day & you couldn’t even translate the fucking punctuation. -she.”— Amanda Lovelace, instagram.com
“I write poems, I don't know how to be 'a poet.'”— Michael Hirst, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Jamie Thomas King, imdb.com
“You are a poet as I am a woman. Poets and women are always free with their hearts, are they not?”— Michael Hirst, Anne Boleyn, Natalie Dormer, imdb.com
“Malcolm Murray: You have the soul of a poet, sir. Victor Frankenstein: And the bank account to match.”— John Logan, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Harry Treadaway, imdb.com
“When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”— Osho, amazon.com
“A musician must make music. An artist must paint. A poet must write. If he is to be ultimately at peace with himself, what a man can be, he must be.”— Abraham Maslow, amazon.com
“America is a dream. The poet says it was promises. The people say it is promises—that will come true. The people do not always say things out loud, Nor write them down on paper. The people often hold Great thoughts in their deepest hearts And sometimes only blunderingly express them, Haltingly and s…”— Langston Hughes, amazon.com
“here’s to being your own therapist and still needing a therapist, here’s to the stories you keep to yourself”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“You don’t need to be superstitious to be a poet. You don’t need to hate GM technology to care about the beauty of the planet. You don’t have to claim a soul to promote compassion.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”— Brian Andreas, amazon.com
“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity — he is continually informing — and filling some other body.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”— John Fowles, amazon.com
“...we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, amazon.com
“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”— Stephen King, amazon.com