Arrogance Quote by Francois Mauriac

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What poets, I cried aloud, as one does in the dusk, what poets they were! In a sort of jealousy, I suppose, for our…

— Virginia Woolf

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They…

— Helen Hayes

“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”

— Oscar Sparrow

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that…

— Elizabeth Janeway

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

— Jules Verne

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley