Quotes about poet
poetry myrtle ruins
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? George Crabbe
poetry speech
The poetry of speech. Lord Byron
poetry mathematical fourier
Fourier is a mathematical poem. Lord Kelvin
poetry creation poet
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet. Mahatma Gandhi
poet
I learn life from the poets. Madame de Stael
poetry doe asking
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poetry littles lyrical
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
poetry world faults
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
poetry realizing poetic
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. John Cage
poet lyrical duty
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. James Stephens
poetry earning poet
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. Edward Dahlberg
poetry together pulpit
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. Edith Hamilton
poetry suggestions infinite
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
poet starving
The starving poet business is no good nowadays. Henrik Ibsen
poetry literature may
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert
poetry checks priests
A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests. John Dryden
poetry heroic human-nature
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.
poetry mystery poet
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery. John Lennon
poetry produce
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. Norman MacCaig
poet companion whole-life
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. David McCullough
poet negotiation range
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader. Edward Hirsch
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
poet invention conscious
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme. C. S. Lewis
poetry
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. Natasha Trethewey
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poet sad
Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet Alphonse Lamartine
poet poets today truest
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful. Wilfred Owen
poetry indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry invisible keepsakes
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Carl Sandburg
poetry poetry-is barbaric
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Denis Diderot
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poetry wisdom
We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips