Poet Quote by Jules Verne Download Open image “Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.” — Jules Verne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poet Poetry
“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.” — John A. Vanek Copy Share Image
“It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their… — Randall Jarell Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“As I remarked before, the Asiatic elephant is smaller than the African, which is frequently twelve feet high, and its tusks are in proportion.… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“My uncle” is the natives’ usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Kâlagani evidently knew this thinly-peopled region perfectly, and guided us across it most admirably. On the 29th September our train began to ascend the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“— Isola in vendita per contanti, più le spese, al miglior offerente! — andava ripetendo a perdifiato Dean Felporg, banditore dell'auction, in cui venivano… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
