Creatures Quote by Anonymous

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

— Socrates

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

— Rachel Held Evans

I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you…

— Guy Maddin

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

— Peter Davison

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in…

— Diane Ackerman

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

— Adrienne Rich

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own…

— Pat Conroy

“God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.”

— Martin Luther

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human…

— Edward Hirsch

I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think…

— Oliver Sacks