Eros Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nobody knew how it all began, neither Homer nor Hesiod. Nor Ovid nor Vergil. But it was said that at the beginning, there was…

— Nicholas Chong

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

You have no idea how poet you are until you meet love.

— Anonymous

“In Poetry class, Professor Sappho teaches us how to compose love ballads. She's a swell teacher and all but I'm not sure I understand…

— Tai Odunsi

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do,…

— Ellen Glasgow

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining,…

— John Drinkwater

Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“There is no denying that Eros was now in love.He had fallen in love with his wife, Helen, more than 15 years ago, &…

— Nicholas Chong

“If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's…

— Kathy Acker

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

— Plato