Poets Quotes · Page 24

“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

— Carol Ann Duffy

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

“v. It would be very odd if two poets were killed in the same way... May on Lake Asquam, by Jean Giraudoux”

— Jean Giraudoux

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like…

— Bob Dylan

“Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world,…

— Shane Claiborne

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician…

— G K Chesterton

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing…

— Mary Ruefle

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next,…

— John Dryden

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is…

— Anonymous

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time…

— Wislawa Szymborska

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a…

— Plato

“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.”

— Sanober Khan

I didn't study other poets and react against them. I kind of found them later and realised I was different. Quite throwaway,…

— Tim Key

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

— Steven Heighton

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but…

— Bradley Walsh

“Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.”

— Somerset maugham

“You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them.”

— Lynn Cullen

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably…

— Rodney Crowell

Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue

— Alexander Pope

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life…

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!”

— Dona Mayoora

“Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?”

— C.S. Lewis

“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.”

— Harold Bloom

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

— Honore de Balzac

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered…

— Susan Glaspell

“Writers, poets and artists inspire each other. I believe they become muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.”

— Robert Lynd

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had…

— Christopher Dawson

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

— Bohumil Hrabal

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that…

— Socrates

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

— Stephen King