Poets Quotes
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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
Sarah Orne Jewett -
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.
George Eliot
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Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?'
Joy Covey -
The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?
Brion Gysin -
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
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.
Clarence Day -
It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.
Bohumil Hrabal
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Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'
Susan Stewart -
They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.
Rudyard Kipling -
One of the greatest Roman poets was Ovid, an older contemporary of Jesus (his dates: 43 BCE–17 CE). His most famous work is his fifteen-volume Metamorphoses, which celebrates changes or transformations described in ancient mythology. Sometimes these changes involve gods who take on human form in order to interact, for a time, with mortals.
Bart Ehrman -
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.
Barbara Holland -
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
Isaac Rosenberg -
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.
Emanuel Lasker
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Poets play with words to keep themselves sane.
Eyedea -
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
Eugene H. Peterson -
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
Raymond Carver -
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.
Ethan Canin
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Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
Joyce Cary -
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.
Eugene McCarthy -
There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.
Eugene McCarthy -
The soaring mountains rose around her, and the poets’ waters glittered beneath her in the valleys of memory—hosts of golden daffodils, Swallows and Amazons, Peter Rabbit.
Elizabeth Wein