Poets

Famous quotes containing the word poets:

“The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“You know what? Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

“Can you remember? when we thought
the poets taught how to live?”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)