Alice Walker Quotes

whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

We must listen to poets.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

I'm far less a leader than a writer.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.