Favorite Poets Quotes

#1. One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

Anita Diament

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

Jewel

#3. I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.

Victoria Chang

#4. My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Rita Dove

#5. an Urdu couplet by one of his favorite poets, Mir Taqi Mir: Jis sar ko ghurur aaj hai yaan taj-vari ka Kal uss pe yahin shor hai phir nauhagari ka The head which today proudly flaunts a crown Will tomorrow, right here, in lamentation drown

Arundhati Roy

#6. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

Bram Stoker

#7. Always remember who you are and where you have come from while in the process of being found by others

Bathsheba Dailey

#8. C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.

Cedric Price

#9. I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.

John Keats

#10. I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.

Robin Williams

#11. The back, it's frustrating. It's hard to figure out. You go to bed feeling good, and you wake up tight. It seems like, when you have a bad back, your whole body feels like crap.

Marco Scutaro

#12. Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

Jet Li

#14. When you create something out of nothing it's the most thrilling thing.

Frankie Knuckles

#15. The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.

Idries Shah