Pastoral Resources

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

There are very few great poets in the world.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.