Poetry Quote by Elizabeth Charles

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only…

— Elizabeth Charles

“I knew a very wise man . . . that . . . believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads…

— Andrew Fletcher

“Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.”

— E.M. Forster

“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Whoever is capable of not minding what others say, is a man on the path to wisdom”

— Paulo Coelho

“The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in…

— Walt Whitman

“To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.”

— Peirce Charles Sanders

“These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.”

— Lucian of Samosata

“When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart”

— Subhan Zein

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Courage is a warrior, wisdom is a sage, virtue is a priest, and love is poet.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo