Poetry Quote by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.”

— Michael S. Harper

“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Socrates

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert…

— Charlotte Brontë

“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

“Certain poems and lines of poetry seem as solid and miraculous to me as church altars or the coronation of queens must seem to…

— Sylvia Plath

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity.”

— Agatha Christie

“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.”

— Major Jackson

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid…

— John Milton