Ancient Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty That had their haunts in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the…

— Alfred Austin

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

— Saint John Chrysostom

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged…

— Hugh Miller

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent,…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from…

— Guy Davenport

“I am convinced that poets are toddlers in a cathedral, slobbering on wooden blocks and piling them up in the light of the stained…

— Andrew Peterson

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message…

— Loren Eiseley

“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone,…

— Herman Melville

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They…

— Stanley Kunitz

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

— Elizabeth Janeway