Boredom Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the…

— Lewis Cass

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born…

— Frances Mayes

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

— Augustus William Hare

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside…

— Plato

“What would the human soul be without poetry?”

— Parker Bilal

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask…

— Christopher Morley