A poet could kill the dead.
True humanity knows no animosity.
Natural elegance inspires the mind.
Sometimes reality is a fantastically traumatic nightmare.
Against stupidity; be always prepared.
The only sweeter than union is reunion.
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles
Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.
A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be time...
Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.
...And we left the light for the night of the street
That which endures forever; it is released from nebulous name-giving.
Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
John Keating: Mr. Meeks, time to inherit the earth.
We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of his or her predecessor, especially when they're still unfolding.
The literature [Nobel] laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him. A scientist cannot do anything that is not checked and rechecked by scientists of this network before it is accepted.
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.
I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
