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Here's a collection of cool Ghazals
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, and the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII
The freedom of poetic license.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Publio Sestio
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Defendant (1901)
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
Poetry should please by fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
M. C. Richards
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
In science one try to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.
W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), Collected Poems
The poet judges not as judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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