Poetry Quote by Peter Davison Download Open image “If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.” — Peter Davison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Poets Realistic Were
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.” — Brandon Gene Petit Copy Share Image
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“They're not. That's partly what's so awful. I mean they're not real poets. They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris 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
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke 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
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
