Conspiring Quote by Lawrence Durrell

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits…

— Emil Cioran

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

— John Keats

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him…

— Paul Valery

“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium of poetry…

— Dylan Thomas

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

— George Henry Lewes

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his…

— Emile M. Cioran

“Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is. (1879-1958)”

— James Branch Cabell

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except…

— Anonymous

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all…

— Steven Saylor