Poetry Quote by Richard Burton Download Open image “Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.” — Richard Burton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son,… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by the knowing of their destination” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
My sister Edith died at the age of 43. She was the youngest sister and the funniest. I had to harrumph and snort a… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo, I've never… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion. — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared. — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war. — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine. — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps. — Richard Burton 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
