Climbs Quote by Edmond de Goncourt Download Open image “A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.” — Edmond de Goncourt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climbs Poet Poetry Violin
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than… — William Wordsworth Copy Share
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible:… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a… — Edmond De Goncourt Copy Share Image
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
Life is a climb and it's a struggle getting to the top but the drop to the bottom can be quick and so I… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I've often thought about that and the only suitable member to join me on that climb [to Everest] was George Lowe: he was strong,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her brother said… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
Every mountain needs someone to climb it, Every ocean needs someone to dive in, Every dream needs someone to wish it, Every adventure needs… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
![“[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.” quote by Edmond De Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e1/edmond-de-goncourt-19675_life_he-went-on-to-say-that-during-all-those_436609.jpg)
![“I've often thought about that and the only suitable member to join me on that climb [to Everest] was George Lowe: he was strong, a good man on a mountain, with a great sense of humour, and I liked that. I think George and I could've done that together ... I've probably never told George that.” quote by Edmund Hillary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/165/edmund-hillary-3760_climbs_i-ve-often-thought-about-that-and-the-on_12447.jpg)
