Centeredness Quote by Stephen Spender

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

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

— Plato

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

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

— James Russell Lowell

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

— Peter Davison

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

— John Ciardi

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

— Phyllis Bottome

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”

— T.S Eliot