Poets Quotes
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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the gypsies. (Quote by - Gerald Brenan)
Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill. (Quote by - Roger Boyle)
A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard; To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, asked ages more. (Quote by - William Cowper)
There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. (Quote by - William Cowper)
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
Poetry is not a profession, it's a destiny. (Quote by - Mikhail Dudan)
One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he. So! you're a poet in your house, and smiled. A Poet? God forbid, I cried; and then It all came out: how Andrew slyly sent Verse to the paper; how they printed it In Poet's Corner. (Quote by - Robert Williams Buchanan)
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. (Quote by - J. M. Synge)
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either. (Quote by - Robert Graves)
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
The poet is the priest of the invisible. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent, But only want and discontent. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
Poetry is all nouns and verbs. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
And spare the poet for his subject's sake. (Quote by - William Cowper)
A drainless shower of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm. (Quote by - John Keats)
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those. (Quote by - Sir John Denham)
God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Colour, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
He koude songes make and well endite. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people. (Quote by - Robert Graves)
A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours! For all are happy and rich and great In that City of By-and-by. (Quote by - Alonzo B. Bragdon)
The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance and the human voice. (Quote by - Earle Birney)
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. (Quote by - Robert Penn Warren)
Singing and rejoicing, As aye since time began, The dying earth's last poet Shall be the earth's last man. (Quote by - Alexander Anton von Auersperg)
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. (Quote by - Stephane Mallarme)
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. (Quote by - E. B. White)
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. (Quote by - Abraham Cowley)
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
