Able Quote by Peter Kreeft

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

— Umberto Eco

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not…

— Anonymous

I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s.…

— Robert Hass

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.

— Francis Bacon Sr

It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written…

— James Elroy Flecker

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

— Ezra Pound

“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry. Without those,…

— Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

— Karl Shapiro

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

— William Wordsworth

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani