Poets Quotes
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Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
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Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.
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People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.
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As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.
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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
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O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.
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I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.
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I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.
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With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.
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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
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The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
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The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
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I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.
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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
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There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.
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Poets are band leaders who have failed.
