Poets Quotes

943 Poets quotes by 613 unique authors

He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally… — John Dryden
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned… — John Dryden
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. — Jean Giraudoux
They are poets of gesture. — George Balanchine
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who… — Richard Francis Burton
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The… — Edmund Spenser
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making… — Rumi
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place… — George Farquhar
Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets — Emmanuel Mounier
We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians. — Khalil Gibran
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as… — Swami Vivekananda
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of… — Alfred Marshall
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. — Alphonse de Lamartine
We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and… — Roy Harper
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding… — Unknown Author
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave… — Julian Casablancas
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to… — Nick Flynn
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders. — Joyce Cary
There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret. — Steven Sater
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts. — Janet Malcolm
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long… — Norman O. Brown
So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I… — Ellen Bass

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