Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!
Solitude itself your happiness,when a train of some promised words break like beads from the Heart's decked chain.
Whereever a poet is born enduring depends on the frailest of chances: Who listened to your murmuring over your little rubbish who let you be who gave you the books who let you know you were not alone
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.