Poets Quotes

943 Poets quotes by 613 unique authors

Poets find truth by writing about what they love. — Susan Cooper
Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are… — Anthony Hecht
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus
The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts:… — William Faulkner
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may… — Sinclair Lewis
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The… — Guillaume Apollinaire
There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets… — Van Morrison
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially… — Walt Whitman
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare… — Elizabeth Charles
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. — Gerald Brenan
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker. — Charles de Lint
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no… — William Faulkner
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it,… — Isadora Duncan
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their… — Plato
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are… — Plato
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find… — Socrates
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. — Plato
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark… — Plato
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to… — William Davenant
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers… — Martin Prechtel
In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts. — Margarita Engle
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s… — Gabrielle Hamilton

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