Poet Quotes
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And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
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Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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All great poets have been men of great knowledge.
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If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world.
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
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Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
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Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
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Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
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Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.
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A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
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Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
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Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.
