Poet Quotes
?Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.”
Dazai Osamu
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan
[http://www.poesia-inter.net/indexpn.htm Original poems] - It includes some translations and audio files. All poems are sourced
Pablo Neruda
[http://www.biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9421737&page=2&search= A&E life story of Neruda]
Pablo Neruda
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon
The author of Lear remains unshaken
Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton
What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.
Noël Coward
Kobayashi Issa
Matsuo Bashō
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
Gaston Bachelard
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[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/li_ching_chao/poems Li Ching Chao Poems and Poetry] at Famous Poets and Poems
Li Qingzhao
[https://www.poemhunter.com/kakinomoto-no-asomi-hitomaro/ Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro Poems] at Poem Hunter
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
Bob Dylan
His poems generally known as the Luzumiyat arrest attention by their boldness and originality as well as by the sombre and earnest tone which pervades them.
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
I was met with the poet’s greatest enemy; indifference.
John Clarke
[http://nusrat.info/category/translations/ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Lyrics Translations] at nusrat.info fansite
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Emily Dickinson (herself)
Garrincha
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[http://marilynchin.org/ Personal Website]]
Qiu Jin
[https://www.aldiwan.net/poem101679.html]
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī