Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

T. S. Eliot

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Stephane Mallarme

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

Rumi

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

Sherman Alexie

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

May Sarton

Time spent with poets is never wasted.

Matthew Arnold

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

Pablo Neruda

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

Mark Strand

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Frank Robinson

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.

Thomas a Kempis

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

Joshua Homme

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I never said I was consistent.

Peabo Bryson

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.