Poets Laureate Quotes

#1. If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.

Henry Ford

#2. It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

Alanis Morissette

#4. Poets sing our human music for us.

Carol Ann Duffy

#5. The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#6. Learning is one letter short of maturity.

Eddie Mhone

#7. They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely.

Lois Lowry

#8. Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.

T.H. White

#9. I offer you what I have my
Poverty

W.S. Merwin

#10. Had he liked her all along? Was she the girl he saw every day and was I the girl who fed him and showered him with kisses once a week? It occurred to me that maybe all the time he omitted in our stolen conversations wasn't simply long, boring hours of inventory. I was too angry to cry.

Kiera Cass

#11. Sometimes I don't consider myself very good at life, so I hide in my profession.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. So I don't think I'll make Poet Laureate,
but I swear I'm not twisted and bitter,
If finely-wrought talents
don't weigh in the balance,
I can always write haiku on Twitter.

Rosy Cole

#13. All we have is time.

Terry Tempest Williams