Certain Quote by Babette Deutsch

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

“Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.”

— Céline Sciamma

The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though…

— William Wordsworth

“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of…

— Virginia Woolf

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of…

— Jane Austen

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

— Edith Sitwell

The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.

— Fernando Pessoa

“She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to…

— Jane Austen

“The poet lusts after emotionally unavailable people because she doesn't have to worry about commitment. The poet desperately wants commitment.”

— Trista Mateer

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

— Rollo May