Quotes about poet
poetry needs world
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad. Patricia MacLachlan
poet really-great creatures
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. Oscar Wilde
poetry touching charm
Gently touching with the charm of poetry. Lucretius
poet vanguard changed
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being. Martin Heidegger
poetry phrases meter
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.... Nikki Giovanni
poetry mind fine
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace. Ovid
poetry letters jest
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.
poetry blithe subjects
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. Michel de Montaigne
poet genre americana
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre Michael Nesmith
poetry doe nouns
Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry. Gertrude Stein
poet brutes
As we to the brutes, poets are to us. George Meredith
poet
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Friedrich Nietzsche
poetry saws speak
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. John Ruskin
poetry age ornaments
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing John Milton
poetry may historian
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. Miguel de Cervantes
poet 20th-century
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists. Robert Hass
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
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. Eminem
poetry problem haiku
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then Roger McGough
poetry elegance revelations
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Robert Fitzgerald
poetry contagious complaints
Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. Washington Irving
poetry tragedy merit
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. Voltaire
poetry odes destination
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
poetry poetry-is eloquence
Poetry is the eloquence of verse. William C. Bryant
poet shirk painter
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk William Butler Yeats
poetry argument quarrels
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
poetry limits poet
If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
poetry sculpture painting
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. Walter Savage Landor
poet hated
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other. William Wycherley
poetry spirit breaths
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge William Wordsworth
poetry comfort breathe
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
poetry enough
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.