Poetic Quotes

411 quotes by 330 authors

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — 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
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Always be a poet, even in prose. — Charles Baudelaire
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always… — Charles Baudelaire
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous;… — Charles Baudelaire
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way. — Kate Beckinsale
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not… — David Bohm
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as… — Niels Bohr
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. — Joseph Brodsky
God is the perfect poet. — Robert Browning
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. — John Cage
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. — Thomas Carlyle
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. — Pablo Casals
The poet doesn't invent. He listens. — Jean Cocteau

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