Books Quote by Plato

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value…

— Plato

“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers…

— Plato

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

— Plato

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

— John B. S. Haldane

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