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Poets Quotes by Horace
- Poets wish to profit or to please.
- "Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn…
- The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would…
- Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
- Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn…
- Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
- I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
- Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
- Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man
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