Poets Quotes

943 Poets quotes by 613 unique authors

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a… — Samuel Johnson
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the… — Denis de Rougemont
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except… — Aristotle
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's… — Francis Bacon
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And mighty poets in their misery dead. — William Wordsworth
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Augustus William Hare
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. — Thomas B. Macaulay
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before… — Nikos Kazantzakis
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. — Wislawa Szymborska
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose. — Plato
He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise… — John Dryden
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were… — William Alexander
You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a… — Ken Kesey
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. — Diane Wakoski
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. — James Laughlin
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. — Warren G. Bennis
I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. — E. M. Forster
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. — Democritus
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more… — Robert Frost
I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the… — John Taylor Gatto
For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences… — Howell Raines
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of… — Anais Nin

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