Quotes about poet
poetry anvils ill
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. Horace
poet madmen fellows
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
poetry want exaggeration
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. Friedrich Nietzsche
poet carriages rhythm
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
poetry
I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
poet poets today truest
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful. Wilfred Owen
poetry seems
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere. Caitriona Balfe
poetry
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. Taylor Momsen
poet lays values
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. Caroline Norton
poetry possibility outrage
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ... Muriel Rukeyser
poetry form
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
poetry spirit source
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
poetry would-be world
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
poetry poetic breathe
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
poet
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. Jules Verne
poetry poetic great-poetry
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert
poetry invisible visible
For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible. Nathalie Sarraute
poet pathetic
A poet over 30 is pathetic H. L. Mencken
poetry
Any time is the time to make a poem. Gertrude Stein
poetry sorrow radiance
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance. Honore de Balzac
poetry substance trifles
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
poetry matter comic
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
poetry imperfection faults
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
poetry-is
... poetry is fired by love ... Erica Jong
poet modern modern-day
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare Eminem
poetry fool rhyming
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. Jack London
poet
A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are. Jack Prelutsky
poet lays
I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead. Jack Kerouac
poetry attention lines
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head. Gwendolyn Brooks
poetry-is
The poetry is myself.
poet town
In a town of writers, he really is our poet laureate, Emmylou Harris
poetry
I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write. Amity Gaige
poetry
I want the poetry back in my life.