Poetry Quote by Aristotle Download Open image ““a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his… — Plato Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.” — David J Delaney Copy Share Image
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes… — Plato Copy Share Image
“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It… — Aristotle Copy Share
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are… — Aristotle Copy Share
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
