Misha Collins Quotes

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

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

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.