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Poet Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them…
- Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
- The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why…
- There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
- The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
- The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there…
- THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with…
- Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter…
- Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the…
- Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from…
- By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to…
- Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized…
- The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
- Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from…
- We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,…
- A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
- The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.
- A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
- The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in…
- The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold
- All men are poets at heart.
- To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
- Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted,…
- The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
- Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden