Bards Quote by Kelley Armstrong

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone…

— Franz Grillparzer

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

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

— Nikki Giovanni

Poets find truth by writing about what they love.

— Susan Cooper

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

— Plato

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the…

— Rollo May

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

— Socrates

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of no belief.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald