Alcohol Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things…

— Stephen Spender

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

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

— William Blake

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

— Margaret Cavendish

“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only a calm…

— Alok Mishra

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

— Laura Riding