Poets Quotes

943 Poets quotes by 613 unique authors

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. — Guillaume Apollinaire
The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and… — George MacDonald
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who… — Socrates
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used,… — David Knopfler
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. — Guy Gavriel Kay
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to… — Antonin Artaud
Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons
We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of… — Tom Robbins
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. — Robert Graves
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are… — Wilfred Owen
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more… — William Empson
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. — Rebecca Harding Davis
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but… — Henry David Thoreau
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far… — Dorothy Fields
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get… — Dylan Moran
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common:… — Sarah Kay
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as… — Alfred de Musset
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers,… — William Blake
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… — Horace
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. — Remy de Gourmont

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