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Tag Name "Poet" (2072)

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Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller
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Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.
Edmund Waller
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Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.
Eduardo Galeano
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
T. S. Eliot
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Jean Cocteau
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Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
Jean Cocteau
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Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.
Anne Hebert
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Poets are always the advance guard of literature the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
Amy Lowell
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POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?
Allen Tate
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Poets, in their way, are practical men they are interested in results.
Allen Tate
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poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.
Vernon Lee
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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare performance with text and with other performances. Good poets use the full resources of language.
Christopher Logue
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
Carl Sandburg
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
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Poets sing our human music for us.
Carol Ann Duffy
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. Feynman
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Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
Rollo May
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Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.
Nicholas Sparks
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
Michel de Montaigne
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