Quotes about Poets

poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Such brutality is required because dissenters, subversives, artists, poets, and prophets invite thought that the regime is not absolute, that its claims to legitimacy are not ultimate, that its policies are not beyond criticism nor its practices beyond destabilization.