Poet S Quotes
- The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over… — Eileen Myles
- A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but… — Walter Martin
- The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes. — Vera Brittain
- The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. — Oscar Wilde
- Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops… — Andre Breton
- For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who… — John Keats