Poetry Quote by Atticus Download Open image ““Poets are fools until they are kings.”” — Atticus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and the gods.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .” — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“He surrounded himself with fools - the broken, the failed or failing, the sad and confused - so that he might be their king.… — Joanna Rakoff Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Here's to the charlatans, the pretenders, the pawns and the knights. For without them, this play would have no kings.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
“Hemingway is my favourite writer, I'm just not the hugest fan of his writing.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
“If ever the amount of people getting struck by lightning increases dramatically, it will severely throw off the global measurement of probability.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.” — Atticus 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… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
