Quotes about poet
poetry mystery poet
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery. John Lennon
poet minors knows
I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against. Leonard Cohen
poetry burning olive-branches
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love
poet
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead. Langston Hughes
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
poetry apotheosis poetry-is
Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment. Madame de Stael
poet
I learn life from the poets.
poetry literature may
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert
poet theory feels
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. John Ciardi
poetry simplicity noble
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. Matthew Arnold
poet wide
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
poet feels
a poet never feels useful. May Sarton
poet clear
It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.
poet
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. Jules Verne
poet term
One must love a poet on its own terms. Paul Gray
poetry roles literature
In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony. Joseph Brodsky
poetry-is translations
Poetry is what is gained in translation.
poetry poetry-is breaths
Poetry is the breath of beauty. Leigh Hunt
poetic poet interest
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. Muhammad Iqbal
poet passing currents
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing. Marguerite Yourcenar
poetry hammers hollow
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. John Ashbery
poet great-poet
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. Kenneth Koch
poetry tasks criticize
I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all. Margaret Atwood
poetry language poetry-is
poetry is where the language is renewed.
poet born orators
We are born poets. we become orators. Marcus Tullius Cicero
poet orators
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
poetry excellence madness
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
poetry poet
There were poets before Homer.
poet conceit orators
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
poetic-license poetry poetic
The freedom of poetic license.
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who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets? Margaret Cavendish