Poetry Quote by Basil Bunting Download Open image ““Poet appointed dare not decline to walk among the bogus...”” — Basil Bunting ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“To dare is to momentarily lose one’s footing. But not to dare is to lose one’s self.” — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a… — T.S.Eliot Copy Share Image
“And feeling, in a poet, is the source Of others' feeling; but they are such liars, And take all colours—like the hands of dyers.” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“We no longer dare seem what we really are, but lie under a perpetual restraint; in the meantime the herd of men, which we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The mason stirs. Words! Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write.” — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line. — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
“It tastes good, garlic and salt in it, with the half-sweet white wine of Orvieto on scanty grass under great trees where the ramparts cuddle Lucca. It sounds right, spoken on the ridge between marine olives and hillside blue figs, under the breeze fresh with pollen of Apennine sage. It feels soft, weed thick in the cave and the smooth… — Basil Bunting Copy Share
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture,… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is… — Basil Bunting 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
