Poets Who Prefer Quotes

#1. I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Wislawa Szymborska

#2. Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Patricia Hill Collins

#3. Though poets might prefer a more evocative comparison, astrophysicists liken the sun to a nuclear fusion reactor.

Eric W. Sanderson

#4. Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand

Mike Parry

#5. Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.

Wendell Berry

#6. One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

Robert Hass

#7. The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie.

Bee Wilson

#8. I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

John Mackey

#9. Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes ...

Edgar Allan Poe

#10. I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Tom Waits