Brics Quote by Glen Duncan

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

— Allen Ginsberg

poets are born knowing the language of angels

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more.”

— Thomas Pynchon

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

— Stanley Kunitz

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose…

— D. H. Lawrence

The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore…

— Vern Rutsala

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.

— William Carlos Williams

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think…

— Oliver Sacks

“People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of angels.”

— Madeleine L'Engle