Pastoral Resources

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

The American public does not know poets exist.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.