poetic admiration Quotes

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.

When I first became brave enough to tell people that I wrote poems, so many people would rave to me about Edna St. Vincent Millay's work. I was embarrassed not to have read her, and I think that put me off from reading her for a long time. So many of her poems are just impeccable.

Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.