Poets Quotes

943 Poets quotes by 613 unique authors

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. — Edmund Waller
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath
Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same… — Seth Godin
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to… — David Antin
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are… — C.S. Lewis
We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with.… — William Butler Yeats
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of… — Ambrose Bierce
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come… — Jacques Maritain
I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox. — R. S. Thomas
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories,… — Unknown Author
Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff. — Bhagat Singh
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for. — Martial
The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is… — Unknown Author
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not… — Orison Swett Marden
Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or… — John Milton
In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I. — Gaston Bachelard
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. — Reginald Horace Blyth
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition -… — Edgar Allan Poe
All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own… — Elwyn Brooks White
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative… — Emanuel Lasker
Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it. — Sheri S. Tepper
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for… — Richard P. Feynman
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. — Luc Ferrari
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following… — William Wordsworth
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our… — Khalil Gibran

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