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Poets Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are…
- Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous…
- This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the…
- Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the…
- When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will…
- The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction…
More Poets Quotes
- 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 was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — 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… — 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… — Leonard Cohen
- Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie