Poets

We bring you the Poets.

Matsuo Basho

“From the temple steps I lift to the autumn moon my veritable face.”

Charles Bukowski

“We have wasted history
like a bunch of drunks shooting dice
back in the men’s crapper
of the local bar.”

Lord Byron

“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

“Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.”

Gregory Corso

“If you believe you’re a poet, then you’re saved.”

Countee Cullen

“So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,
And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds”

Dante

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”

Emily Dickinson

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”

T.S. Eliot

“Half of the harm that is done in this world
is due to people who want to feel important.
They don’t mean to do harm.
But the harm does not interest them.”

Robert Frost

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

Allen Ginsberg

“The only thing that can save the world
is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world.
That’s what poetry does”

Langston Hughes

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go life is a barren field frozen with snow”

Federico Garcia Lorca

“In Spain, the dead are more alive
than the dead of any other country in the world.”

Claude McKay

“Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back”

H. L. Mencken

“It is hard to believe that a man is telling
the truth when you know that you would
lie if you were in his place.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“My soul is too big for the rest of me.”

Toni Morrison

“Love is or it ain’t.
Thin love ain’t no love at all.”

Pablo Neruda

“I grew up in this town, my poetry
was born between the hill and the river,
it took its voice from the rain, and like
the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”

Sylvia Plath

“Wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street cafe in Paris
or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar,
stewing in my own sour air.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only at night”

Arthur Rimbaud

“But, truly, I have wept too much!
The dawns are heartbreaking.
Every moon is atrocious and every sun
bitter.”

Theodore Roethke

“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.”

Carl Sandburg

“I’m either going to be a writer or a bum.”

Gertrude Stein

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears”

Dylan Thomas

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Walt Whitman

“I accept reality and dare not question it”

W. B. Yeats

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”