Poets Quotes

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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 it for a… — Hannah Arendt
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of… — Paul Auster
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in… — Margaret Atwood
Always be a poet, even in prose. — Charles Baudelaire
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets,… — Eric Burdon
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. — Jean Cocteau
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are… — Leonard Cohen
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. — Lascelles Abercrombie
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams… — Maya Angelou
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are… — Thomas Aquinas
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing. — Elwyn Brooks White
Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep. — Sally-Ann Roberts
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most… — Barbara Holland
Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that… — Jonas Hallgrimsson
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast… — Mark Twain

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