Poets Quotes

943 Poets quotes by 613 unique authors

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas. — Carolyn Kizer
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Simone Weil
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when… — Mark Twain
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole… — Robert Frost
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the… — Ernest Hemingway
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest… — Unknown Author
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat.… — Andrea Dworkin
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far… — Stephen Spender
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with… — Hugh Miller
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,… — Khalil Gibran
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with… — James Elroy Flecker
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of… — William Wordsworth
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque… — Fulton J. Sheen
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past… — Fred Bodsworth
A good poet's made as well as born. — Ben Jonson
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It… — Olive Schreiner
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems;… — John Fowles
Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The… — Rabindranath Tagore
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. — John Dryden
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best,… — Clifton Fadiman

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